Hebrews 11:12-16 And so from just one man, already dead in that respect, there sprang descendants "as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand on the seashore innumerable."

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² And so from just one man, already dead in that respect, there sprang descendants "as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand on the seashore innumerable." ¹³ These all died in faith, not having obtained the promised blessings, but they saw them and greeted them afar and confessed that they were strangers and foreigners in the land. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if they had been thinking of that land from which they came they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But now they desire a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them — of being called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.