Bible, King James Version
Genesis
Gen.15
[1] After 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] And 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] 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 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] And 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] And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him
for righteousness.
[7] And 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] And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I
shall inherit it?
[9] And 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] And 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] And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram
drove them away.
[12] And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell
upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon
him.
[13] And 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] And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I
judge: and afterward shall they come out with great
substance.
[15] And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt
be buried in a good old age.
[16] But in the fourth generation they shall come hither
again: for the iniquity of the Amorites 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 burning lamp
that passed between those pieces.
[18] In 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] The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the
Kadmonites,
[20] And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the
Rephaims,
[21] And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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