GE-15:1  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.

GE-15:2  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?

GE-15:3  And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed:

and,

lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

GE-15:4  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.

GE-15:5  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.

GE-15:6  And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him

for

righteousness.

GE-15:7  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.

GE-15:8  And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall

inherit it?

GE-15:9  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.

GE-15:10  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.

GE-15:11  And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram

drove

them away.

GE-15:12  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon

Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

GE-15:13  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed

shall

be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve

them;

and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

GE-15:14  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I

judge:

and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

GE-15:15  And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt

be

buried in a good old age.

GE-15:16  But in the fourth generation they shall come hither

again:

for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

GE-15:17  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.

GE-15:18  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:

GE-15:19  The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

GE-15:20  And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

GE-15:21  And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the

Girgashites,

and the Jebusites.



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