Genesis Chapter 15
| 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 divided he 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. |