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Genesis 41:49
And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
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Genesis 41:49 in other translations
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
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.
Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
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In context
46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
47 And in the seven years of plenty the land brought forth by handfuls.
48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.
49 And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.
50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.
51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh — For God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
52 And the name of the second he called Ephraim — For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
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