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.