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The Time of The Patriarchs

By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out to a place which he was going-to receive for an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going. By faith he stayed[a] in the land of the promise as a land belonging-to-another, having dwelled in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow-heirs of the same promise. 10 For he was waiting-for the city having foundations, of which[b] God is designer[c] and maker[d]. 11 By faith— and Sarah herself being barren— he[e] received power for the foundation[f] of a seed[g] even beyond the time of mature-age, since he regarded the One having promised to be faithful. 12 Therefore indeed from one man— and he having become impotent as to these[h] things— were born[i] seed as the stars of heaven in number, and countless as the sand by the shore of the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:9 Or, lived-as-a-foreigner.
  2. Hebrews 11:10 That is, which city.
  3. Hebrews 11:10 Or, craftsman, artisan.
  4. Hebrews 11:10 Or, builder.
  5. Hebrews 11:11 By faith... he received... he regarded. Or, By faith also, barren Sarah herself received... she regarded.
  6. Hebrews 11:11 Or, beginning. Or, deposit (of sperm).
  7. Hebrews 11:11 That is, a posterity; or, sperm.
  8. Hebrews 11:12 That is, his powers of procreation.
  9. Hebrews 11:12 Or, fathered.

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