First, they are normally associated with theophanies that involve God restating the commission in Genesis 1:28 that human beings are to be fruitful, fill the earth and rule over it (see Gen. 9:1, 7; 12:2–3; 17:2, 6, 8, 20; 22:17–18; 26:3–4, 24; 28:3–4; 35:11–12; cf. 41:52; 47:27; 48:4; 49:22).
