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Hebrews 11:12
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12 So in fact children[a] were fathered by one man—and this one as good as dead—like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand[b] on the seashore.[c]

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  1. Hebrews 11:12 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
  2. Hebrews 11:12 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
  3. Hebrews 11:12 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).
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Hebrews 11:12
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12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead,(A) came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.(B)

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