Genesis 15

After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, ^aFear not, Abram: I am thy ^bshield, and thy exceeding ^cgreat reward. ²And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of ^dDamascus? ³And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, ^eone born in my house is mine heir. ⁴And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that ^fshall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. ⁵And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and ^gtell the ^hstars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, ⁱSo shall thy seed be. ⁶And he ^kbelieved in the Lord; and he ^lcounted it to him for righteousness. ⁷And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of ^mUr of the Chaldees, ⁿto give thee this land to inherit it. ⁸And he said, Lord God, ^owhereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? ⁹And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. ¹⁰And he took unto him all these, and ^pdivided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but ^qthe birds divided he not. ¹¹And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. ¹²And when the sun was going down, ^ra deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. ¹³And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety ^sthat thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and ^tthey shall afflict them ^ufour hundred years; ¹⁴and also that nation, whom they shall serve, ^xwill I judge: and afterward ^yshall they come out with great substance. ¹⁵And ^zthou shalt go ^ato thy ^bfathers in peace; thou shalt be buried ^bin a good old age. ¹⁶But ^cin the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity ^dof the Amorites ^eis not yet full. ¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was ^fdark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. ¹⁸In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ^gUnto thy seed have I given this land, from ^hthe river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: ¹⁹the ⁱKenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, ²⁰and the ^kHittites, and the ^lPerizzites, and the ^mRephaims, ²¹and the Amorites, and the ⁿCanaanites, and the ^oGirgashites, and the Jebusites.

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