Genesis:15

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* After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision , saying , Don 't be afraid , Abram : I am your shield , [and ] your exceedingly great reward . * And Abram said , O Sovereign Yahweh , what will you give me , seeing I go childless , and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eliezer of Damascus ? * And Abram said , Look , to me you have given no seed : and , see , one born in my house is my heir . * And , look , the word of Yahweh came to him , saying , This man will not be your heir ; But he who will come forth out of inside you will be your heir . * And he brought him forth abroad , and said , Look now toward heaven , and number the stars , if you are able to number them : and he said to him , So will your seed be . * And he believed in Yahweh ; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness . * And he said to him , I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees , to give you this land to inherit it . * And he said , O Sovereign Yahweh , by what shall I know that I will inherit it ? * And he said to him , Take me a heifer three years old , and a she-goat three years old , and a ram three years old , and a turtledove , and a young pigeon . * And he took him all these , and divided them in the midst , and laid each half opposite the other : but he did not divide the birds . * And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses , and Abram drove them away . * And when the sun was going down , a deep sleep fell on Abram ; and , look , a dread , dark and enormous , fell on him . * And he said to Abram , Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs , and will serve them ; and they will afflict them four hundred years ; * and also that nation , whom they will serve , I will judge : and afterward they will come out with great substance . * But you will go to your fathers in peace ; you will be buried in a good old age . * And in the fourth generation they will come here again ; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full . * And it came to pass , that , when the sun went down , and it was dark , look , a smoking furnace , and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces . * In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram , saying , To your seed I have given this land , from the river of Egypt to the great river , the river Euphrates : * the Kenite , and the Kenizzite , and the Kadmonite , * and the Hittite , and the Perizzite , and the Rephaim , * and the Amorite , and the Canaanite , and the Girgashite , and the Jebusite .

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