12Therefore even from one man, and one who was as good as dead 11:12 Lit in these thingsat that, there were born descendants who were just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand along the seashore.
12Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendantsas the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
12So from one man, though he was [physically] as good as dead, were born as many descendantsas the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand on the seashore. [Gen 15:5, 6; 22:17; 32:12]
12Abraham was past the time when he could have children. But many children came from that one man. They were as many as the stars in the sky. They were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore. No one could count them.