Genesis 15
15:1 After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying,
Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, `and' thy exceeding great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in
my house is mine heir.
15:4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not
be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be
thine heir.
15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and
number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall
thy seed be.
15:6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
15:7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
15:8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat
three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young
pigeon.
15:10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each
half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.
15:11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them
away.
15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a
horror of great darkness fell upon him.
15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners
in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them
four hundred years;
15:14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward
shall they come out with great substance.
15:15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good
old age.
15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the
iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
15:18 In that day Jehovah 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:
15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15:21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
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