Genesis 41:49 - Exposition

And Joseph gathered (or heaped up) corn as the sand of the sea ,—an image of great abundance (cf. Genesis 32:12 )— very much, until he left numbering ( i.e. writing, or keeping a record of the number of bushels); for it was without number . "In a tomb at Eilethya a man is represented whose business it evidently was to take account of the number of bushels. Which another man, acting under him, measures. The inscription is as follows "The writer or registrar of bushels—Thutnofre,".