Genesis 41:49

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Ps 78:27 : 27 He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
  • Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up with their livestock 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.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 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 on the seashore for multitude.
  • 1 Sam 13:5 : 5 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 seashore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
  • Job 1:3 : 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

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  • Gen 41:46-48
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    46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

    47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

    48 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 around every city, he laid up in the same.

  • Gen 47:12-14
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    12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

    13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

    14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 41:56-57
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    56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

    57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

  • Gen 41:35-36
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    35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

    36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

  • Gen 41:29-31
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    29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

    30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

    31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

  • Gen 41:53-54
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    53 The seven years of plenty, that were in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

    54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

  • Gen 39:6
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    6 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.

  • Gen 41:50
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    50 To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

  • Gen 42:5
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    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 42:2-3
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    2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

    3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 42:25
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    25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

  • 1 Kgs 4:20
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    20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

  • Gen 47:17
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    17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

  • Gen 50:8
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    8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.