Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children 1 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 2 on the seashore. 3
1 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
2 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
3 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).