Genesis 15
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- After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram
in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward.
- 2
- And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing
I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
- 3
- And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:
and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
- 4
- And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own
bowels shall be thine heir.
- 5
- And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now
toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he
said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
- 6
- And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him
for righteousness.
- 7
- And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee
out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
- 8
- And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it?
- 9
- And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years
old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtledove, and a young pigeon.
- 10
- And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the
midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he
not.
- 11
- And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram
drove them away.
- 12
- And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon
Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
- 13
- And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and
they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- 14
- And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- 15
- And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
- 16
- But in the fourth generation they shall come hither
again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
- 17
- And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and
it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces.
- 18
- In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto
the great river, the river Euphrates:
- 19
- The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
- 20
- And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
- 21
- And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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