¹⁷ I will indeed bless you^(A) and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky^(B) and the sand on the seashore.^(C) Your offspring will possess the city gates of their^[a] enemies.^(D)

¹⁹ He did not weaken in faith when he considered^[a] his own body to be already dead^(A) (since he was about a hundred years old)^(B) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.^(C)