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Genesis 15

  1. 1After 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.
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  2. 2And Abram said, LORD God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
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  3. 3And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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  4. 4And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be yours heir; but he that shall come forth out of yours own bowels shall be yours heir.
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  5. 5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be.
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  6. 6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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  7. 7And 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.
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  8. 8And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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  9. 9And 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.
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  10. 10And 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. 11And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
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  12. 12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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  13. 13And he said unto Abram, Know certainly that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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  14. 14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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  15. 15And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
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  16. 16But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
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  17. 17And 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.
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  18. 18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
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  19. 19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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  20. 20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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  21. 21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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