Genesis 15:16
Good News Translation
It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished."

New Revised Standard Version
And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Contemporary English Version
Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.

New American Bible
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

in the.

Exodus 12:40 And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Amorites.

1 Kings 21:26 And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

2 Peter 3:8,9 But of this one thing be not ignorant, my beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. . . .

not.

Daniel 8:23 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences.

Zechariah 5:5-11 And the angel went forth that spoke in me, and he said to me: Lift up thy eyes, and see what this is, that goeth forth. . . .

Matthew 23:32-35 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Context
God Confirms His Promise
15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. 16But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.17And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.…
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Genesis 15:13
And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

Exodus 12:40
And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Leviticus 18:24
Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,

1 Kings 21:26
And he became abominable, insomuch that he followed the idols which the Amorrhites had made, whom the Lord destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

Genesis 15:15
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