⁴⁹ And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, ^(A)like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

⁵ And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops ^(A)like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of ^(B)Beth-aven.

¹² And the Midianites and the Amalekites and ^(A)all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

⁵ For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come ^(A)like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.

¹⁷ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring ^(A)as the stars of heaven and ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess ^(C)the gate of his^[a] enemies,

²² As ^(A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and ^(B)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”

³ He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all ^(A)the people of the east.