Genesis 15:14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

English Standard Version
But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

New American Standard Bible
"But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

King James Bible
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions.

International Standard Version
However, I will judge the nation that they serve, and later they will leave there with many possessions.

American Standard Version
and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

Darby Bible Translation
But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.

Young's Literal Translation
and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:12-16 A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk in the light. Several things were then foretold. 1. The suffering state of Abram's seed for a long time. They shall be strangers. The heirs of heaven are strangers on earth. They shall be servants; but Canaanites serve under a curse, the Hebrews under a blessing. They shall be suffers. Those that are blessed and beloved of God, are often sorely afflicted by wicked men. 2. The judgment of the enemies of Abram's seed. Though God may allow persecutors and oppressors to trample upon his people a great while, he will certainly reckon with them at last. 3. That great event, the deliverance of Abram's seed out of Egypt, is here foretold. 4. Their happy settlement in Canaan. They shall come hither again. The measure of sin fills gradually. Some people's measure of sin fills slowly. The knowledge of future events would seldom add to our comfort. In the most favoured families, and most happy lives, there are so many afflictions, that it is merciful in God to conceal what will befall us and ours.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-21. Take me an heifer, &c.—On occasions of great importance, when two or more parties join in a compact, they either observe precisely the same rites as Abram did, or, where they do not, they invoke the lamp as their witness. According to these ideas, which have been from time immemorial engraven on the minds of Eastern people, the Lord Himself condescended to enter into covenant with Abram. The patriarch did not pass between the sacrifice and the reason was that in this transaction he was bound to nothing. He asked a sign, and God was pleased to give him a sign, by which, according to Eastern ideas, He bound Himself. In like manner God has entered into covenant with us; and in the glory of the only-begotten Son, who passed through between God and us, all who believe have, like Abram, a sign or pledge in the gift of the Spirit, whereby they may know that they shall inherit the heavenly Canaan.