Hebrews 11:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² So from one man, though he was physically as good as dead, there have sprung descendants whose number is as the stars of heaven and as countless as the innumerable sands on the seashore. [Gen. 15:5, 6; 22:17; 32:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

Common English Bible

¹² So descendants were born from one man (and he was as good as dead). They were as many as the number of the stars in the sky and as countless as the grains of sand on the seashore.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Because of this, there were also born, from one who himself was as if dead, a mulititude like the stars of heaven, who are, like the sand of the seashore, innumerable.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Hebrews 11:12 Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Genesis 32:12

Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’ ”

2 Samuel 17:11

But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beer-sheba, like the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, how you swore to them by your own self, saying to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Isaiah 10:22

For though your people, O Israel, were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, an overwhelming verdict.

Isaiah 48:19

your offspring would have been like the sand and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the people of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor numbered, and in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”

Habakkuk 1:9

They all come for violence, with faces pressing forward; they gather captives like sand.

Romans 9:27

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Joshua 11:4

They came out, with all their troops, a great army, in number like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.

Revelation 20:8

and will come out to deceive the nations at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, in order to gather them for battle; they are as numerous as the sands of the sea.

Judges 7:12

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts, and their camels were without number, countless as the sand on the seashore.

1 Samuel 12:5

He said to them, “The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”