Hebrews 11:9

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

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 

[11:9]  ¹ tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

[11:9]  ² tn Or “heirs with him.”

[11:12]  ³ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

[11:12]  ⁴ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

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