Williams(i)
13 These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.
14 For people who make such a profession as this show that they are in search of a country of their own.
15 And if they had been cherishing the memory of the country they had left, they would have had an opportunity to go back.
16 But in reality they were aspiring for a better country, I mean, a heavenly one. This is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, offered Isaac as a sacrifice; that is, he who had received the promise was starting to offer as a sacrifice his only son,
18 of whom it had been said, "Through Isaac your offspring must be traced."
19 For he considered the fact that God was able to raise people from the dead; and so from the dead, in a figure, he did receive him back.
20 By faith Isaac put his blessings for the future on Jacob and Esau.
21 By faith Jacob, when about to die, put his blessing on each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, at the closing of his life, made mention of the future migration of the Israelites, and gave directions what to do with his body.
23 By faith, Moses, at his birth was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's decree.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as a son of Pharaoh's daughter,
25 because he preferred to suffer hardships with the people of God than to have the passing enjoyment that results from sin,
26 and thought the reproach endured for the Christ was greater wealth than all the treasures in Egypt, for he kept his eye upon the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt, because he was not afraid of the king's anger, for he persevered as though he were actually seeing Him who is unseen.