Genesis 41:49
New International Version
Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

New Living Translation
He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.

English Standard Version
And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

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.

King James Bible
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

New King James Version
Joseph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting, for it was immeasurable.

New American Standard Bible
Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

NASB 1995
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

NASB 1977
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Amplified Bible
Thus Joseph gathered and stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting it, for it could not be measured.

Christian Standard Bible
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Yoseph gathered grain as the sand of the sea, a great abundance, until he was weary of counting without number.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

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.

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.

English Revised Version
And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Joseph stored up grain in huge quantities like the sand on the seashore. He had so much that he finally gave up keeping any records because he couldn't measure it all.

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

International Standard Version
Joseph stored up so much grain—like sand on the seashore in so much abundance!—that he stopped keeping records because it was proving to be impossible to measure how much they were gathering.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

Literal Standard Version
and Joseph gathers grain as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until he has ceased to number, for there is no number.

Majority 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.

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.

NET Bible
Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

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.

New Heart English Bible
Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, because it could not be measured.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

World English Bible
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

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.

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Context
The Seven Years of Plenty
48During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it. 49So 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. 50Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.…

Cross References
Genesis 41:48
During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

Genesis 41:50
Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.


Treasury of Scripture

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.

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 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.

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.

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Genesis 41
1. Pharaoh has two dreams.
9. Joseph interprets them.
33. He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.
46. The seven years of plenty.
50. He begets children.
53. The famine begins.














Verse 49. - And Joseph gathered (or heaped up) corn as the sand of the sea, - an image of great abundance (cf. Genesis 32:12) - very much, until he left numbering (i.e. writing, or keeping a record of the number of bushels); for it was without number. "In a tomb at Eilethya a man is represented whose business it evidently was to take account of the number of bushels. Which another man, acting under him, measures. The inscription is as follows "The writer or registrar of bushels - Thutnofre," (Hengstenberg, 'Egypt and the Books of Moses,' p. 36).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So Joseph
יוֹסֵ֥ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

stored up
וַיִּצְבֹּ֨ר (way·yiṣ·bōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6651: To aggregate

grain
בָּ֛ר (bār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1250: Grain, the open country

in such abundance,
הַרְבֵּ֣ה (har·bêh)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

like the sand
כְּח֥וֹל (kə·ḥō·wl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 2344: Sand

of the sea,
הַיָּ֖ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3220: A sea, the Mediterranean Sea, large river, an artifical basin

that
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

he stopped
חָדַ֥ל (ḥā·ḏal)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

keeping track of it;
לִסְפֹּ֖ר (lis·pōr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 5608: To count, recount, relate

for
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

it was beyond
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

measure.
מִסְפָּֽר׃ (mis·pār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration


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