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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. |
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