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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