Genesis:15-17

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* After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision , saying , Fear not , Abram . I am thy shield , thy exceedingly great reward . * And Abram said , O lord LORD , what will thou give me , since I go childless . And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus ? * And Abram said , Behold , thou have given no seed to me . And , lo , a man born in my house is my heir . * And , behold , the word of LORD came to him , saying , This man shall not be thine heir , but he who shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir . * And he brought him forth abroad , and said , Look now toward heaven , and number the stars , if thou be able to number them . And he said to him , So shall thy seed be . * And he believed in LORD , and he reckoned it to him for righteousness . * And he said to him , I am LORD who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees , to give thee this land to inherit it . * And he said , O lord LORD , how shall I know that I shall inherit it ? * And he said to him , Take a heifer three years old for me , and a she-goat three years old , and a ram three years old , and a turtle dove , and a young pigeon . * And he took all these for him , 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 upon the carcasses , and Abram drove them away . * And when the sun was going down , a deep sleep fell upon Abram . And , lo , a horror of great darkness fell upon him . * And he said to Abram , Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs . And shall serve them , and they shall afflict them four hundred years . * And also I will judge that nation , whom they shall serve , and afterward they shall come out with great substance . * But thou will go to thy fathers in peace ; thou will be buried in a good old age . * And in the fourth generation they shall 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 , behold , a smoking furnace , and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces . * In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram , saying , To thy 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 . * Now Sarai , Abram 's wife , bore him no sons . And she had a handmaid , an Egyptian , whose name was Hagar . * And Sarai said to Abram , Behold now , LORD has restrained me from bearing . Go in , I pray thee , to my handmaid . It may be that I will obtain sons by her . And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai . * And Sarai , Abram 's wife , took Hagar the Egyptian , her handmaid , after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan , and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife . * And he went in to Hagar , and she conceived . And when she saw that she had conceived , her mistress was despised in her eyes . * And Sarai said to Abram , My wrong be upon thee . I gave my handmaid into they bosom , and when she saw that she had conceived , I was despised in her eyes . LORD judge between me and thee . * But Abram said to Sarai , Behold , thy maid is in thy hand , do to her that which is good in thine eyes . And Sarai dealt harshly with her , and she fled from her face . * And the agent of LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness , by the fountain in the way to Shur . * And he said , Hagar , Sarai 's handmaid , from where have thou come ? And where are thou going ? And she said , I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai . * And the agent of LORD said to her , Return to thy mistress , and submit thyself under her hands . * And the agent of LORD said to her , I will greatly multiply thy seed , that it shall not be numbered for multitude . * And the agent of LORD said to her , Behold , thou are with child , and shall bear a son , and thou shall call his name Ishmael , because LORD has heard thy affliction . * And he will be a wild donkey among men , his hand against every man , and every man 's hand against him , and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers . * And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her , Thou are a God who sees , for she said , Have I even here looked behind him who sees me ? * Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi . Behold , it is between Kadesh and Bered . * And Hagar bore Abram a son . And Abram called the name of his son , whom Hagar bore , Ishmael . * And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram . * And when Abram was ninety-nine years old , LORD appeared to Abram , and said to him , I am God Almighty , walk before me , and be thou perfect . * And I will make my covenant between me and thee , and will multiply thee exceedingly . * And Abram fell on his face . And God talked with him , saying , * As for me , behold , my covenant is with thee , and thou shall be the father of a multitude of nations . * Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram , but thy name shall be Abraham , for I have made thee the father of a multitude of nations . * And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful . And I will make nations of thee , and kings shall come out of thee . * And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant , to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee . * And I will give to thee , and to thy seed after thee , the land of thy sojourning , all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession , and I will be their God . * And God said to Abraham , And as for thee , thou shall keep my covenant , thou , and thy seed after thee throughout their generations . * This is my covenant , which ye shall keep , between me and you and thy seed after thee : every male among you shall be circumcised . * And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin , and it shall be a sign of a covenant between me and you . * And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you , every male throughout your generations : he who is born in the house , or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed . * He who is born in thy house , and he who is bought with thy money , must be circumcised . And my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant . * And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin , that soul shall be cut off from his people ; he has broken my covenant . * And God said to Abraham , As for Sarai thy wife , thou shall not call her name Sarai , but her name shall be Sarah . * And I will bless her . And moreover I will give thee a son by her . Yea , I will bless her , and she shall be [a mother of ] nations ; kings of peoples shall be by her . * Then Abraham fell upon his face , and laughed , and said in his heart , Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old ? And shall Sarah , who is ninety years old , bear ? * And Abraham said to God , Oh that Ishmael might live before thee ! * And God said , No , but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son , and thou shall call his name Isaac . And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him . * And as for Ishmael , I have heard thee . Behold , I have blessed him , and will make him fruitful , and will multiply him exceedingly . He shall beget twelve princes , and I will make him a great nation . * But I will establish my covenant with Isaac , whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year . * And he left off talking with him , and God went up from Abraham . * And Abraham took Ishmael his son , and all who were born in his house , and all who were bought with his money , every male among the men of Abraham 's house , and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day , as God had * And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin . * And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin . * In the selfsame day Abraham was circumcised , and Ishmael his son . * And all the men of his house , those born in the house , and those bought with money from a foreigner , were circumcised with him . * And LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre , as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day .

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