Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Genesis 41:49 in other translations
| BSB | 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. |
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| WEB | Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number. |
| ASV | And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number. |
| YLT | and Joseph gathereth corn as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until that he hath ceased to number, for there is no number. |
| DARBY | And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number. |
| BBE | So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured. |
| Webster | And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number. |
What does Genesis 41:49 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 41:46-57
In the names of his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph owned the Divine providence. 1. He was made to forget his misery. 2. He was made fruitful in the land of his affliction. The seven plenteous years came, and were ended. We ought to look forward to the end of the days, both of our prosperity and of our opportunity. We must not be secure in prosperity, nor slothful in making good use of opportunity. Years of…
Genesis 41:49 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 41:49
- Psalms 78:27
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
- 1 Samuel 13:5
And 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 Beth–aven.
- Genesis 22:17
That 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;
- Judges 7:12
And 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.
- Judges 6:5
For 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.
- Jeremiah 33:22
As 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.
- Job 1:3
His 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.
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Context
- Genesis 41:48
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.
- Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Genesis 41:50
And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.
Genesis 41:49 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y acopió José trigo como arena de la mar, mucho en extremo, hasta no poderse contar, porque no tenía número. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Joseph amassa du blé, comme le sable de la mer, une immense quantité, jusqu’à ce qu’on cessa de compter, parce qu’il était sans nombre. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Joseph schüttete Getreide auf wie Sand des Meeres, über die Maßen viel, bis man aufhörte zu zählen, denn es war ohne Zahl. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Tantaque fuit abundantia tritici, ut arenæ maris coæquaretur, et copia mensuram excederet. |