Genesis 41:49

In 11 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.

KJV

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

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.

LSV

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

So Ioseph gathered wheate, like vnto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, vntill he left numbring: for it was without number.

JPS

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

LXXE

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.

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WLC

וַיִּצְבֹּ֨ר יוֹסֵ֥ף בָּ֛ר כְּח֥וֹל הַיָּ֖ם הַרְבֵּ֣ה מְאֹ֑ד עַ֛ד כִּי־חָדַ֥ל לִסְפֹּ֖ר כִּי־אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ συνήγαγεν Ἰωσὴφ σῖτον ὡσεὶ τὴν ἄμμον τῆς θαλάσσης πολὺν σφόδρα, ἕως οὐκ ἠδύνατο ἀριθμηθῆναι, οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἀριθμός.

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• Psalms 78:27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
• 1 Samuel 13:5Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
• Judges 6:5For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
• Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
• Judges 7:12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
• Jeremiah 33:22As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
• Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

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