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Chapter 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. |
| 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? |
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3 | And Abram said, Behold, to
me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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8 | And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I
shall inherit it? |
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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. |
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11 | And when the fowls came down upon the
carcasses, 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; |
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14 | And also that nation,
whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with
great substance. |
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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. |
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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 Rephaim, |
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21 | And the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. |
