I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there."'

"Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

It is not in heaven, that you should say, 'Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?'

"LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water. The mountains quaked before the LORD, even Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel.

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

"Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.

They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.

I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

"As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.

He answered, "I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out."

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down) or "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.