10. for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and maker is Elohim.
11. By belief also, Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who had promised.
12. And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.
13. In belief all these died, not having received the promises, but seeing them from a distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were aliens and strangers on the earth.
14. For those who speak this way make it clear that they seek a fatherland.
15. And yet, if they had indeed kept remembering that place from which they had come out, they would have had the chance to return.
16. But now they long for a better place, that is, a heavenly. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their Elohim, for He has prepared a city for them.
17. By belief, Aḇraham, when he was tried, offered up Yitsḥaq, and he who had received the promises offered up his only brought-forth son,
18. of whom it was said, “In Yitsḥaq your seed shall be called,”