Objects
sand
Sand on the seashore pictures Abraham's and Jacob's descendants; Joseph gathers grain like sand in Genesis 41; in Exodus 2 Moses hides the Egyptian he killed in the sand.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 2:12
Tags
3
Genesis 22, 32, 41Exodus 2Image / burial
Scripture references
- Exodus 2:12
Looking this way and that and seeing no one in sight, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
- Genesis 22:17
as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore.
- Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be as plentiful as the dust on the ground;
- Genesis 32:13
Yet it was you who said, 'I shall be very good to you, and make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which is too numerous to count.'
- Genesis 41:49
Joseph gathered in grain like the sand of the sea, in such quantity that he gave up keeping count, since it was past accounting.