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15:1  After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward.
15:2  And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
15:3  And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no descendants: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
15:4  And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own body shall be your heir.
15:5  And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your descendants be.
15:6  And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
15:7  And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
15:8  And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9  And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.
15:10  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.
15:11  And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
15:12  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
15:13  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that your descendants shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
15:14  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great possessions.
15:15  And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
15:16  But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
15:17  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.
15:18  In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
15:19  The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
15:20  And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
15:21  And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.