Genesis 15 : 1 (LXXEN)
And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.
Genesis 15 : 2 (LXXEN)
And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir.
Genesis 15 : 3 (LXXEN)
And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.
Genesis 15 : 4 (LXXEN)
And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir.
Genesis 15 : 5 (LXXEN)
And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, [Ro 4:18] Thus shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15 : 6 (LXXEN)
[Ro 4:3] And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15 : 7 (LXXEN)
And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.
Genesis 15 : 8 (LXXEN)
And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15 : 9 (LXXEN)
And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.
Genesis 15 : 10 (LXXEN)
So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.
Genesis 15 : 11 (LXXEN)
And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram [Or, drove them away; The LXX seem to have read bvy for bwv] sat down by them.
Genesis 15 : 12 (LXXEN)
And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
Genesis 15 : 13 (LXXEN)
And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their won, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
Genesis 15 : 14 (LXXEN)
And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much [Lit. baggage] property.
Genesis 15 : 15 (LXXEN)
But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.
Genesis 15 : 16 (LXXEN)
And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.
Genesis 15 : 17 (LXXEN)
And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.
Genesis 15 : 18 (LXXEN)
In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
Genesis 15 : 19 (LXXEN)
The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans,
Genesis 15 : 20 (LXXEN)
and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,
Genesis 15 : 21 (LXXEN)
and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
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