12. Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
13. These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
14. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
15. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.
17. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
18. of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
19. He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.