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Genesis 15:5

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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

Context
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 
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[15:5]  1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:12]  2 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

[11:12]  3 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

[11:12]  4 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).



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