I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in heaven and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies.

Joseph stored up so much grain like sand on the seashore in so much abundance! that he stopped keeping records because it was proving to be impossible to measure how much they were gathering.

"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.

As the heavenly bodies cannot be counted, and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I'll multiply the descendants of my servant David and the descendants of Levi who serve me.'"

"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.