Hebrews 2:14
2:14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in 1 their humanity, 2 so that through death he could destroy 3 the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil),
Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children 4 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 5 on the seashore. 6
1 tn Or “partook of” (this is a different word than the one in v. 14a).
2 tn Grk “the same.”
3 tn Or “break the power of,” “reduce to nothing.”
4 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
5 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
6 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).