Hebrews 11:9
11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner 1 in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs 2 of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children 3 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 4 on the seashore. 5
1 tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”
2 tn Or “heirs with him.”
3 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
4 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
5 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).