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title: Genesis 15
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createdAt: 2024-07-17T03:54:34.515Z
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**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.

**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? **3 **And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. **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. **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. **6 **And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. **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.

**8 **And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? **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. **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. **11 **And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

**12 **And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. **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; **14 **And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. **15 **And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. **16 **But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites *is* not yet full.

**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.

**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:

**19 **The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, **20 **And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, **21 **And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.