¹⁷ I will indeed bless you^(A) and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky^(B) and the sand on the seashore.^(C) Your offspring will possess the city gates of their^[a] enemies.^(D)

¹² You have said, “I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.” ’^(A)

⁴⁹ So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance – like the sand of the sea – that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.