Catholic Public Domain Version
"And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure. "
— Genesis 41:49, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.”
“And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number. ”
“Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.”
“Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.”
“And there was so great abundance of wheat, that it was equal to the sand of the sea, and the plenty exceeded measure.”
“So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.”
“And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.”
(Now he was thirty years old when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh.) And he traveled throughout the regions of Egypt.
And the fertility of the seven years arrived. And when the grain fields were reduced to sheaves, these were gathered into the storehouses of Egypt.
And now all the abundance of grain was stored away in every city.
And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure.
Then, before the famine arrived, Joseph had two sons born, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore for him.
And he called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has caused me to forget all my labors and the house of my father.”
Likewise, he named the second Ephraim, saying, “God has caused me to increase in the land of my poverty.”