The Time of The Patriarchs

⁸ 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. ⁹ 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.