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Chapter 15 | |
1 | After 
these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a 1vision, saying, Fear 
not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great 2reward.
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2 | And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou 
give me, seeing I go childless, and the 1steward of my house is this Eliezer of 
Damascus?
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3 | And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.  | 
4 | And, behold, 
the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but 
he that shall 1come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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5 | And he brought him forth abroad, 
and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number 
them: and he said unto him, 1So shall thy seed be.
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1And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to 
him for righteousness.
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And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of 1Ur of the 
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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8 | And he said, LORD God, 1whereby shall I know that I 
shall inherit it?
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9 | And 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.  | 
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.  | 
 
11 | And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.  | 
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And when the sun was going down, a 1deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an 
horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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13 | And he said unto Abram, 
1Know 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;
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1And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I 
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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15 | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.  | 
 
16 | But in the fourth generation 1they shall come hither 
again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet 2full.
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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.  | 
 
18 | In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, 
Unto thy seed have I 1given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great 
river, the river Euphrates:
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19 | The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,  | 
20 | And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,  | 
21 | And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.  |  
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