Genesis 15:3
Good News Translation
You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."

New Revised Standard Version
And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.”

Contemporary English Version
You have not given me any children, and this servant of mine will inherit everything."

New American Bible
Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a servant of my household will be my heir.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.

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And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.

Behold.

Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.

Jeremiah 12:1 Thou indeed, O Lord, art just, if I plead with thee, but yet I will speak what is just to thee: Why doth the way of the wicked prosper: why is it well with all them that transgress, and do wickedly?

Hebrews 10:35,36 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward. . . .

born.

Genesis 14:14 Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.

Proverbs 29:21 He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Proverbs 30:23 By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 2:7 I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

Context
God's Covenant with Abram
2And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. 3And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.4And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:14
Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.

Genesis 15:2
And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

Genesis 15:2
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