Chapter 15 Abram's vision

[1] After these things the Word (of the LORD) came unto Abram in a vision, saying, 

Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

[2] And Abram said, 

Lord (GOD), what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

[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 come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

[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, So shall thy seed be.

[6] And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

[7] And he said unto him, 

I am (the LORD) that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

[8] And he said, 

Lord (GOD), whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

[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 he divided not.

[11] And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

[12] And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror (of great darkness) fell upon him.

[13] And he said unto Abram, 

Know 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;

[14] And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

[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 they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

[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 given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

[19] The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

[20] And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

[21] And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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