GENESIS Chapter 15
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15:1 After this,
Abram had a vision and heard the LORD say to him, "Do not be afraid,
Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward." |
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15:2 But Abram
answered, "Sovereign LORD, what good will your reward
do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer
of Damascus. |
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15:3 You have given
me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property." |
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15:4 Then he heard
the LORD speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer
will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir." |
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15:5 The LORD took
him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you
will have as many descendants as that." |
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15:6 Abram put his
trust in the LORD, and because of this the LORD was pleased with him and
accepted him. |
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15:7 Then the LORD
said to him, "I am the LORD, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give
you this land as your own." |
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15:8
But Abram
asked, "Sovereign LORD, how can I know that it will be mine?" |
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15:9 He answered,
"Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a
dove and a pigeon." |
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15:10 Abram brought
the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each
other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds. |
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15:11 Vultures came
down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off. |
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15:12 When the sun
was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over
him. |
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15:13 The LORD said
to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will
be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years. |
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15:14 But I will
punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land,
they will take great wealth with them. |
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15:15 You yourself
will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried. |
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15:16 It will be
four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not
drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be
punished." |
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15:17 When the sun
had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly
appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals. |
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15:18 Then and there
the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your
descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River, |
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15:19 including the
lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites,
the Kadmonites, |
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15:20 the Hittites,
the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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15:21 the Amorites,
the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." |
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