Genesis 15 : 1 (NET)
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance."
Genesis 15 : 2 (NET)
But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 15 : 3 (NET)
Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"
Genesis 15 : 4 (NET)
But look, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."
Genesis 15 : 5 (NET)
The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars� if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."
Genesis 15 : 6 (NET)
Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.
Genesis 15 : 7 (NET)
The LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
Genesis 15 : 8 (NET)
But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?"
Genesis 15 : 9 (NET)
The LORD said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15 : 10 (NET)
So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.
Genesis 15 : 11 (NET)
When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15 : 12 (NET)
When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.
Genesis 15 : 13 (NET)
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Genesis 15 : 14 (NET)
But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.
Genesis 15 : 15 (NET)
But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15 : 16 (NET)
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
Genesis 15 : 17 (NET)
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.
Genesis 15 : 18 (NET)
That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River�
Genesis 15 : 19 (NET)
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
Genesis 15 : 20 (NET)
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
Genesis 15 : 21 (NET)
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
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