Genesis 41:49

49 So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance-like the sand of the sea-that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Genesis 41:49 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:49

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he left numbering
At first he took an account of the quantities that were bought and laid up, how much there was in each granary, until it amounted to so much, that there was no end of numbering it; it was like the sand of the sea, an hyperbolical expression, denoting the great abundance of it: for [it was] without number;
not only the grains of corn, but even the measures of it, whatever were used; so Artapanus, an Heathen writer, says ^F16, Joseph, when governor of Egypt, got together the corn of seven years, an immense quantity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 23. p. 430.

Genesis 41:49 In-Context

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

48 Joseph gathered all the [excess] food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and placed it in the cities. He placed the food in every city from the fields around it.

49 So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance-like the sand of the sea-that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

50 Two sons were born to Joseph before the years of famine arrived. Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On, bore [them] to him.

51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, "God has made me forget all my hardship in my father's house."