Genesis 41:49 meaning and explanation

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.

Genesis 41:49, Berean Standard Bible

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Joseph, once a slave and prisoner, now administers Egypt under Pharaoh. During the seven years of plenty he gathers a fifth of each harvest and stores it in the cities, and this verse describes the result: grain piled up like the sand of the sea, so much that he stopped keeping records.

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