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Hebrews 11:12

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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).



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