Genesis:15:7-21
rsv@Genesis:15:7 @ And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to possess."
rsv@Genesis:15:8 @ But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"
rsv@Genesis:15:9 @ He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
rsv@Genesis:15:10 @ And he brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
rsv@Genesis:15:11 @ And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
rsv@Genesis:15:12 @ As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon him.
rsv@Genesis:15:13 @ Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;
rsv@Genesis:15:14 @ but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
rsv@Genesis:15:15 @ As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
rsv@Genesis:15:16 @ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
rsv@Genesis:15:17 @ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
rsv@Genesis:15:18 @ On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes,
rsv@Genesis:15:19 @ the land of the Ken'ites, the Ken'izzites, the Kad'monites,
rsv@Genesis:15:20 @ the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Reph'aim,
rsv@Genesis:15:21 @ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Gir'gashites and the Jeb'usites."
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