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. | word of the LORD I am thy shield |
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. | 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. | R418 |
6 | And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. | believed R403 R422 G306 Z223 |
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. | in the midst |
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. | a deep sleep |
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; | four hundred years |
14 | And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. | 3X12 A707 |
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. | fourth generation |
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: | covenant with Abram |
19 | The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, | |
20 | And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, | the Hittites |
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And the Amorites, and the
Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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