Genesis 41:49
Good News Translation
There was so much grain that Joseph stopped measuring it--it was like the sand of the sea.

New Revised Standard Version
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it; it was beyond measure.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, there was so much grain that they stopped keeping record, because it was like counting the grains of sand along the beach.

New American Bible
Joseph collected grain like the sands of the sea, so much that at last he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.

Genesis 22:17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Judges 6:5 For they and all their flocks came with their tents, and like locusts filled all places, an innumerable multitude of men, and of camels, wasting whatsoever they touched.

Judges 7:12 But Madian and Amalec, and all the eastern people, lay scattered in the valley, as a multitude of locusts: their camels also were innumerable, as the sand that lieth on the sea shore.

1 Samuel 13:5 The Philistines also were assembled to fight against Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a multitude of people besides, like the sand on the seashore for number. And going up they camped in Machmas, at the east of Bethaven.

Psalm 78:27 And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Jeremiah 33:22 As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites my ministers.

Context
The Seven Years of Plenty
48And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city. 49And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.50And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:48
And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.

Genesis 41:50
And before the famine came, Joseph had two sons born: whom Aseneth, the daughter of Putiphare, priest of Heliopolis, bore unto him.

Genesis 41:48
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