nsb - 15

nsb@Genesis:15:1 @ The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: »Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.«

nsb@Genesis:15:2 @ Abram said: »O Jehovah God, what will you give me? I continue childless! The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.«

nsb@Genesis:15:3 @ Abram also said: »You have given me no offspring. So a slave born in my house is to be my heir.«

nsb@Genesis:15:4 @ The word of Jehovah came to him: »This man shall not be your heir. No one but your very own issue shall be your heir.«

nsb@Genesis:15:5 @ He brought him outside and said: »Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them?« He continued: »So shall your descendants be.«

nsb@Genesis:15:6 @ He believed in Jehovah. Jehovah considered Abrams faith as his righteousness.

nsb@Genesis:15:7 @ Then God said to him: »I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.«

nsb@Genesis:15:8 @ Abram replied: »O Jehovah God, how will I know that I shall possess it?«

nsb@Genesis:15:9 @ He said to him: »Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.«

nsb@Genesis:15:10 @ Abram brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other. He did not cut the birds in two.

nsb@Genesis:15:11 @ When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

nsb@Genesis:15:12 @ As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.

nsb@Genesis:15:13 @ Jehovah said to Abram: »Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.

nsb@Genesis:15:14 @ »I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve! Afterward they will come out with great possessions.

nsb@Genesis:15:15 @ »As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace. You shall be buried at a good old age.

nsb@Genesis:15:16 @ »They shall come back here in the fourth generation. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.«

nsb@Genesis:15:17 @ The sun went down and it was dark. A smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

nsb@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: »To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

nsb@Genesis:15:19 @ the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

nsb@Genesis:15:20 @ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

nsb@Genesis:15:21 @ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.«

Genesis 15