Tish'a Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?

Question

Who knows two hundred forty-nine?

Please cite/link your sources, if possible. At some point at least twenty-four hours from now, I will:

• Upvote all interesting and relevant answers.

• Accept the what I think is the "best" answer.

• Go on to the next number.

Prime factorization: 3 X 83

Answer 1

Yosef was born 249 years before the Exodus.

(He was 39 when Yaakov and his family arrived there, and the Egyptian exile lasted 210 years.)

Answer 2

Reportedly, the last transport from Zawiercie (October 17, 1943) included 249 Jewish men who were registered into Birkenau.

Answer 3

כלב בן יפנה = 249..............