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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He declared, “So shall your offspring be.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?” |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates— |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” |
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