Genesis 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." 2And Abram said, "Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?" 3And Abram said, "Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed; and lo, one 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 shall come forth out of thine own loins shall be thine heir." 5And He brought him forth outdoors and said, "Look now toward heaven and count the stars, if thou be able to number them." And He said unto him, "So shall thy seed be." 6And he believed in the LORD; and He accounted it to him for righteousness. 7And He said unto him, "I am the LORD who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to inherit it." 8And he said, "Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?" 9And He said unto him, "Take Me a heifer of three years old, and a shegoat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10And 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. 11And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13And 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. 14And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge, and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried at a good old age. 16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full." 17And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. 18On 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: 19the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites, 20and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim, 21and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites."

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