¹⁰ For he was waiting-for the city having foundations, of which^[a] God is designer^[b] and maker^[c]. ¹¹ By faith— and Sarah herself being barren— he^[d] received power for the foundation^[e] of a seed^[f] even beyond the time of mature-age, since he regarded the One having promised to be faithful. ¹² Therefore indeed from one man— and he having become impotent as to these^[g] things— were born^[h] seed as the stars of heaven in number, and countless as the sand by the shore of the sea.