Genesis 15
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The Abrahamic Covenant
1After this the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, # Ge 26:24 Abram.
I am your shield, # Ps 3:3
your exceedingly great reward. # 15:1 Or your reward will be great. ”
2But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I am childless # Ac 7:5 and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3And Abram said, “Behold, You have not given me any children, my heir is a servant born in my house.”
4And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but a son that is from your own body will be your heir.” # Ge 17:16 5He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.” # Ge 22:17; Ex 32:13; Dt 1:10
6Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness. # Ps 106:31; Ro 4:3; Jas 2:23
7He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess # 15:7 Or inherit. it.” # Ge 12:1; Ne 9:7–8
8But Abram said, “Lord God, how may I know # Lk 1:18 that I will possess it?”
9So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10Then Abram brought all of these to Him and cut them in two and laid each piece opposite the other, # Jer 34:18–19 but he did not cut the birds in half. # Lev 1:17 11When the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. # Ge 2:21; Job 33:15 And behold, horror and great darkness fell on him. 13Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated # Ex 1:11 for four hundred years. # Ac 7:6; Gal 3:17 14But I will judge the nation that they serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace and you will be buried at a good old age. # Job 5:26 16In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites # 1Ki 21:26 is not yet complete.”
17When the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot with a flaming torch passed between these pieces. # Ex 13:22 18On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, # Ge 12:7 from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River # Nu 34:5 — 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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Genesis 15
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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.
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?
3And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed; and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.
4And then the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thy heir.
5And he brought him forth abroad and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if thou art able to number them. And he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
6And he believed 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.
8And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9And 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.
10And he took unto him all these and divided them in the midst and laid each piece one against another, but he did not divide the birds.
11And 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, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13Then 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, I will judge; and afterward shall they come out with great riches.
15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
16But in the fourth generation they shall come here 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.
18In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed shall I give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
19the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite
20and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
21and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.
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