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.
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.
14. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
15. If indeed they had been thinking about where they had come from, they would have had opportunity to return.