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11 By faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive[a] when she was barren and past the age, since she considered the One who had made the promise to be faithful. 12 So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.[b]

13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 11:11 cf. Gen. 18:11-14; 21:2. Some mss. add and she bore a child.
  2. Hebrews 11:12 cf. Gen. 15:5; 22:17; 32:12.