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Hebrews 11:12
New English Translation

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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