And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Joseph gathered corn ... until he left numbering; for it was without number. It appears from the paintings that the Egyptian officers kept an account of the quantity of grain stored in the magazines, because at the side of the windows of one of them there are figures indicating the amount deposited in that storehouse (Rosellini, vol. 2: p. 234; Hengstenberg, 'Egypt and Books of Moses,' pp. 34, 35),