Hebrews 11:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

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  • Gen 22:17 : 17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
  • Gen 32:12 : 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
  • Hos 1:10 : 10 But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
  • Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.
  • Isa 48:19 : 19 Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
  • Rom 9:27 : 27 And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:
  • Rev 20:8 : 8 And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.
  • Exod 32:13 : 13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
  • Deut 1:10 : 10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Deut 28:62 : 62 And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.
  • Josh 11:4 : 4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
  • 1 Sam 12:5 : 5 Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.
  • 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.
  • 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
  • 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
  • Rom 4:17-19 : 17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. 18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be. 19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

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  • Heb 11:11
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    11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

  • Heb 11:17-19
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    17 By faith Abraham made an offering of Isaac, when he was tested: and he with whom the agreement had been made gave up as an offering the only son of his body,

    18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

    19 Judging that God was able to give life even to the dead; and because of this he did get him back as if from death.

  • Gen 15:5
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    5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

  • Rom 4:16-19
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    16 For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

    17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.

    18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

    19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

  • Gen 22:17-18
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    17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

    18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

  • Gen 13:16
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    16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

  • Gen 32:12
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    12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

  • Deut 1:10-11
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    10 The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

    11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times greater in number than you are, and give you his blessing as he has said!

  • Rom 9:9-10
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    9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

    10 And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

  • Gen 16:10
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    10 And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

  • Gen 26:4
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    4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8 By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

    9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

  • Heb 6:13-14
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    13 For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,

    14 Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

  • Deut 10:22
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    22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

  • Gal 3:16
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    16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

  • Gen 35:11
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    11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

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    10 But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God

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    14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

  • Rom 9:7
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    7 And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

  • Heb 11:39
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    39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

  • Neh 9:23
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    23 And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

  • Gen 17:2
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    2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

  • Gen 17:6
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    6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

  • Gal 4:27-28
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    27 For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

    28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

  • Exod 1:7
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    7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

  • Ps 105:12
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    12 When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

  • Gen 28:3
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    3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
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    34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • Mark 12:20
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    20 There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;

  • Gen 18:18
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    18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

  • Gal 3:7
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    7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

  • Gen 17:20
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    20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.