I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
“as the dust of the earth.” God promised Abraham that his seed would be a great multitude on a number of different occasions (Gen. 12:2; 13:16; 15:5; 16:10 (via Hagar); Gen. 17:6; 22:17).