15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.’
15:2 But Abram said, ‘O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’
15:3 And Abram said, ‘You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.’
15:4 But the word of the Lord came to him, ‘This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.’
15:5 He brought him outside and said, ‘Look towards heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘So shall your descendants be.’
15:6 And he believed the Lord; and the Lord reckoned it to him as righteousness.
15:7 Then he said to him, ‘I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.’
15:8 But he said, ‘O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?’
15:9 He said to him, ‘Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.’
15:10 He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
15:11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
15:12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.
15:13 Then the Lord said to Abram, ‘Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years;
15:14 but I will bring judgement on the nation that they serve, and afterwards they shall come out with great possessions.
15:15 As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
15:16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’
15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
15:18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
15:19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
15:21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’
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