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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After this, 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 said, "Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And Abram said, "You have given me no children; 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: "This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But Abram said, "Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then birds of prey came down 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 a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the 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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