Genesis:15-17
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After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision ,
saying ,
Do not fear ,
Abram ;
I am your shield ,
your reward will increase greatly .
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And Abram said ,
Lord Jehovah ,
what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus ?
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And Abram said ,
Behold !
You have given no seed to me ;
and lo ,
the son of my house is inheriting of me !
And behold !
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And behold !
The word of Jehovah came to him saying ,
This one shall not be your heir .
But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir .
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And He brought him outside and said ,
Look now at the heavens and count the stars ,
if you are able to count them .
And He said to him ,
So shall your seed be .
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And he believed in Jehovah .
And He counted it to him for righteousness .
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And He said to him ,
I am Jehovah who caused you to come out of Ur of the Chaldeans ,
to give you this land to inherit it .
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And he said ,
My Lord Jehovah ,
by what shall I know that I shall inherit it ?
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And He said to him ,
Take for Me a heifer three years old ,
and a she-goat three years old ,
and a ram three years old ,
and a turtledove ,
even a nestling .
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And he took all these for Him ,
and he divided them in the middle ;
and he laid each piece against one another ,
but he did not divide the bird .
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And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses ,
and Abram drove them away .
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And it happened ,
the sun was setting ,
and a deep sleep fell on Abram ;
ant behold ,
a terror of great darkness falling on him !
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And He said to Abram ,
You must surely know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs ;
and they shall serve them .
And they shall afflict then four hundred years ;
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and I also will judge that nation whom they shall serve ;
and afterward they shall come out with great substance .
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And you shall come to you fathers in peace .
You shall be buried in good old age .
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And in the fourth generation they shall come here again ;
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full
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And it happened ,
the sun had gone down ,
and it was dark .
Behold !
A smoking furnace and a torch of fire that passed between those pieces !
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On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram ,
saying ,
I have given this land to your seed ,
from the river of Egypt to the great river ,
the river Euphrates ,
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the Kenite ,
and the Kenizzite ,
and the Kadmonite ,
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and the Hittite ,
and the Perizzite ,
and the giants ,
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and the Amorite and the Canaanite ,
and the Girgashite ,
and the Jebusite .
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And Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
did not bear to him ;
and to her belonged a female slave ,
an Egyptian ,
and her name was Hagar .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
See ,
now ,
Jehovah has kept me from bearing ;
go in now to my slave-girl ;
perhaps I may be built up from her .
And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai .
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And Sarai ,
Abram '
s wife ,
took her slave-girl ,
Hagar ,
the Egyptian ,
and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife ,
after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan .
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And he went in to Hagar and she conceived ;
and she saw that she had conceived ,
and her mistress was despised in her eyes .
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And Sarai said to Abram ,
My injury be upon you ;
I gave my slave-girl into your bosom ,
and she saw that she had conceived ,
and I was despised in her eyes .
Let Jehovah judge between me and you .
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But Abram said to Sarai ,
See ,
your slave girl is in your hand .
Do to her what is good in your eyes .
And Sarai dealt harshly with her ,
and she fled from before her .
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And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness ;
by the well in the way of Shur .
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And He said ,
Hagar ,
Sarai '
s slave-girl ,
where did you come from ?
And where do you go ?
And she said ,
I am fleeing from the face of my mistress ,
Sarai .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
I will exceedingly multiply your seed ,
so that it shall not be numbered for multitude .
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And the Angel of Jehovah said to her ,
Behold !
You are with child and shall bear a son ;
and you shall call his name Ishmael ,
because Jehovah has attended to your affliction .
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And he shall be a wild ass of a man ,
his hand against all ,
and the hand of everyone against him ;
and he shall live before all his brothers .
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And she called the name of Jehovah ,
the One speaking to her ,
You ,
a God of vision !
For she said ,
Even here I have looked after the One seeing me ?
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On account of this ,
the well was called ,
The Well of the Living One Seeing Me .
Behold ,
it is between Kadesh and Bered .
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And Hagar bore a son to Abram ,
and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore ,
Ishmael .
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And Abram was eighty six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram .
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And when Abram was ninety nine years old ,
Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him ,
I am the Almighty God !
Walk before me and be perfect ;
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and I will make My covenant between Me and you ,
and will multiply you exceedingly .
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And Abram fell on his face .
And God spoke with him ,
saying ,
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As for Me ,
behold ,
My covenant is with you ,
and you shall be a father of many nations .
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And your name no longer shall be Abram ;
but your name shall be Abraham ;
for I have made you a father of many nations .
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And I will make you very fruitful ,
exceedingly .
And I will give you for nations .
And kings shall come out of you .
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And I will establish My covenant between Me and you ,
and your seed after you in their generations ,
for an everlasting covenant ,
to be a God to you and to your seed after you .
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And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojourning ,
all the land of Canaan ,
for an everlasting possession and I will be their God .
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And God said to Abraham ,
You shall keep My covenant ,
you and your seed after you in their generations .
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This is My covenant which you shall keep ,
between Me and you and your seed after you :
Every male child among you shall be circumcised
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And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin .
And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you .
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And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you ,
every male in your generation ,
he that is born in the house ,
or bought with silver from any son of a foreigner who is not of your seed .
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Surely the child of your house and the purchase of your money must be circumcised .
And My covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant .
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And an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin ,
his soul shall be cut off from his people ;
he has broken My covenant .
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And God said to Abraham ,
You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai ,
for Sarah shall be her name ;
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and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her .
Yea ,
I have blessed her and she shall become nations ;
kings of people shall be from her .
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And Abraham fell on his face and laughed .
And he said in his heart ,
Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years ?
And shall Sarah bear ,
a daughter of ninety years ?
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And Abraham said to God ,
Oh that Ishmael might live before You !
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And God said ,
Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son ,
and you shall call his name Isaac .
And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him .
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And as to Ishmael ,
I have heard you .
Behold ,
I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly .
He shall father twelve princes ,
and I will make him a great nation .
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And I will establish My covenant with Isaac ,
whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year .
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And He finished talking with him .
And God went up from Abraham .
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And Abraham took his son Ishmael ,
and all the ones born of his house ,
and all that were bought with his silver ,
every male among the men of the house of Abraham .
And he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in that same day ,
even as God spoke to him .
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And Abraham was a son of ninety nine years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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And his son Ishmael was a son of thirteen years when being circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin .
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In the same day that Abraham was circumcised ,
Ishmael his son also was .
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And all the men of his house ,
born in the house or bought with silver from a son of a foreigner ,
were circumcised with him .
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And Jehovah appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre .
And he was sitting at the door of the tent in the heat of the day .
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