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Hebrews 11:9

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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

Context
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).



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