15:5 The Lord 1 took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”
Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children 2 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 3 on the seashore. 4
1 tnHeb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tnGrk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
3 tnGrk a collective “the sand.”
4 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).