The first recording relating to the size of the universe can be seen in this verse, which says the stars in the universe are unaccountable:
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Genesis 15/5.
And He brought him forth abroad, and said: 'Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them'; and He said unto him: 'So shall thy seed be.'
One must wonder what thoughts would have been aroused in Abraham's mind here. It would have surely confirmed his previous thoughts, and thereafter was the universe changing paradigm of creationism born.