KJV King James Version
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
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Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
WEB World English Bible
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
ASV American Standard Version
And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number.
Surrounding context — Genesis 41
46 And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.
49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, [said he], hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיִּצְבֹּ֨רH6651 · tsa.varto heapיוֹסֵ֥ףH3130 · yo.sephJosephבָּ֛רH1250 · bargrainכְּח֥וֹלH2344 · cholsandהַיָּ֖םH3220 · yamseaהַרְבֵּ֣הH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyמְאֹ֑דH3966 · me.odmuchעַ֛דH5704 · adtillכִּי־H3588 · kiforחָדַ֥לH2308 · cha.dalto ceaseלִסְפֹּ֖רH5608 · sa.pharto recountכִּי־H3588 · kiforאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingמִסְפָּֽר׃H4557 · mis.parnumber
Cross-references
Psalm 78:27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:Judges 6:5For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; [for] both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.1 Samuel 13:5And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.Judges 7:12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels [were] without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.Genesis 22:17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;Job 1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.Jeremiah 33:22As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
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