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'Dust of the Earth' in the Bible

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.

And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.

Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain