Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
49. as the sand, of the sea ] For this comparison cf. Gen 22:17, Gen 32:12.
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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 p, Joseph, when governor of Egypt, got together the corn of seven years, an immense quantity.
p Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 23. p. 430.
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Gen 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for [it was] without number.
Ver. 49. And Joseph gathered corn. ] Against the future famine; mentioned also by Justin, lib. xxxvi., out of Trogus Pompeius. It happened, as Orosius computeth it, in the year before Rome was built, 1048. Ussher dates this about 1715 BC.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
sand, &c. Figure of speech Paroemia (App-6).
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Gen 22:17, Jdg 6:5, Jdg 7:12, 1Sa 13:5, Job 1:3, Psa 78:27, Jer 33:22
Reciprocal: Gen 41:29 – General Gen 41:35 – gather 1Ki 4:29 – as the sand Job 29:18 – as the sand Hab 1:9 – they shall gather