| 1 After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding
great reward. 2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me,
seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer
of Damascus? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah
came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall
come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought
him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if
thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, O Lord
Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto
him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a
ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took
him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against
the other: but the birds divided he not. 11 And the birds of prey came
down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo,
a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know
of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 But thou shalt go
to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 And in
the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the
Amorite is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went
down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that
passed between these pieces. 18 In that day Jehovah 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 the Kenite, and the
Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite,
and the Jebusite.
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