THE FIRST BOOK OF

MOSES,
called
G E N E S I S

Genesis 15 ©

Abram, growing faint-hearted, is comforted of God in a vision by very glorious, spiritual and temporal promises, and justified through faith, vs. 1. God establishes His covenant with Abram in a peculiar manner, foretelling and typifying what would befall his seed after him, 9.

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AFTER these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram 1in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: 2Iaam thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

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And Abram said, Lord GOD, 3what wilt thou give me, 4seeing I go childless, and the 5steward of my house is this 6Eliezer of 7Damascus?

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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no 8seed: and, lo, 9one born in my house 10is mine heir.

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And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, 11This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth 12out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

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And 13he brought 14him forth 15abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tellb the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, 16Soc shall thy seed be.

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Andd17he believed in the LORD; and 18he counted it to him 19for righteousness.

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And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee 20out of Ur of the Chaldees, toe give thee this land to inherit it.

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And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know 21that I shall inherit it?

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And he said unto him, 22Take 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.

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And he took unto 23him all these, and 24divided them in the midst, and laid 25each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram 26drove them away.

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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great 27darkness fell upon him.

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And he said unto Abram, 28Know of a surety thatf thy seed shall be a stranger in a land 29that is not theirs, and shall serve 30them; and they shall afflict them 31four hundred years;

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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I 32judge: and afterward shall they come out withg great substance.

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Andh33thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a 34good old age.

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Buti in 35the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity 36of the Amorites 37is not yet full.

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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a 38smoking furnace, and a 39burning lamp that 40passed between those pieces.

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In the same day the LORD 41made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thyj seed have I 42given this land, 43from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river 44Euphrates:

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45The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the 46Rephaims,

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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.