~Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of Jehovah came untoAbram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and]thy exceeding great reward.
~Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou giveme, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my houseis Eliezer of Damascus?
~Genesis 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given noseed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
~Genesis 15:4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him,saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forthout of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
~Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look nowtoward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them:and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
~Genesis 15:6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to himfor righteousness.
~Genesis 15:7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought theeout of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
~Genesis 15:8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I knowthat I shall inherit it?
~Genesis 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 turtledove,and a young pigeon.
~Genesis 15:10 And he took him all these, and divided them in themidst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds dividedhe not.
~Genesis 15:11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses,and Abram drove them away.
~Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fellupon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
~Genesis 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thyseed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall servethem; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
~Genesis 15:14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will Ijudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
~Genesis 15:15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt beburied in a good old age.
~Genesis 15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hitheragain; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
~Genesis 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 thatpassed between these pieces.
~Genesis 15:18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram,saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egyptunto the great river, the river Euphrates:
~Genesis 15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
~Genesis 15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
~Genesis 15:21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and theGirgashite, and the Jebusite
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