Genesis 41:49

Genesis chapter 41 · verse 49 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.48And 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.

v.49This passage

v.50And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 78:27

    He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

  • Judges 7:12

    And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

  • 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 children of the east.

  • Judges 6:5

    For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

  • 1 Samuel 13:5

    And the Philistines assembled 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 encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.

  • 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.