Genesis 32:12
32:12 But you
said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper
and will make
your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
Genesis 41:49
41:49 Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea,
until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.
Genesis 1:26
1:26 Then God said, “Let us make
humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 9:2
9:2 Every living creature of the earth and every bird of the sky will be terrified of you.
Everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea are under your authority.
Genesis 22:17
22:17 I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply
your descendants
so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession
of the strongholds
of their enemies.