13All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
14Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.
15If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
— Hebrews 11:13-15

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