Chapter 15
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After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram. I am a shield to you; your reward is very great."
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And Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me? I am going childless, and the son of the possession of my house is Eliezer of Damascus."
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And Abram said, "Look, you have not given me seed, and look, the son of my house—he will inherit from me."
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And look, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not inherit you, for the one who shall come out from your loins, he shall inherit you."
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And he brought him outside and said, "Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "In this way your seed shall be."
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And he believed in the LORD, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
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He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."
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He said, "Lord, the LORD, by what shall I know that I will possess it?"
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And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
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And he took all these for himself and cut them in two. And he put each piece opposite its fellow, but he did not cut the birds.
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And birds of prey descended on the carcasses, and he drove them away from Abram.
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As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and behold, a great terror of darkness fell on him.
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And he said to Abram, "Know for certain that your Seed will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years."
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And also the nation which they will serve, I will judge; and afterward they will go out with great possessions.
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And you shall come to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
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And in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.
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And it came to pass that the sun had gone down, and it was dusk, and behold, a smoking furnace and a torch of fire that passed between those pieces.
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On that day the LORD cut a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates."
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the Kenites, the Kenezites, and the Kadmonites.
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and the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim;
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the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.