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Genesis 15

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¹ Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man [Eliezer] will not be your heir but he who shall come from your own body shall be your heir."

² And the LORD brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, "Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "So [numerous] shall your descendants be."

³ Then Abram believed in (affirmed, trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the LORD; and He counted (credited) it to him[2] as righteousness (doing right in regard to God and man).

⁴ And He said to him, "I am the [same] LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."

⁵ But Abram said, "Lord[3] GOD, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?"

⁶ So God said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

⁷ So Abram brought all these to Him and[4] cut them down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

⁸ The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

⁹ When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.

¹⁰ God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

¹¹ But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions.

¹² As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.

¹³ Then in the[5] fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the[6] Amorites is not yet complete (finished)."

¹⁴ When the sun had gone down and a [deep] darkness had come, there appeared a smoking[7] brazier and a flaming torch which passed between the [divided] pieces [of the animals].

¹⁵ On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—

¹⁶ [the land of] the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites

¹⁷ and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim,

¹⁸ the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites."

¹⁹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

²⁰ So Sarai said to Abram, "See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will[1] obtain children by her." And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.

²¹ After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.

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1	Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man [Eliezer] will not be your heir but he who shall come from your own body shall be your heir."
2	And the LORD brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, "Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them." Then He said to him, "So [numerous] shall your descendants be."
3	Then Abram believed in (affirmed, trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the LORD; and He counted (credited) it to him[2] as righteousness (doing right in regard to God and man).
4	And He said to him, "I am the [same] LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as an inheritance."
5	But Abram said, "Lord[3] GOD, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?"
6	So God said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
7	So Abram brought all these to Him and[4] cut them down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.
8	The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
9	When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him.
10	God said to Abram, "Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
11	But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions.
12	As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
13	Then in the[5] fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the[6] Amorites is not yet complete (finished)."
14	When the sun had gone down and a [deep] darkness had come, there appeared a smoking[7] brazier and a flaming torch which passed between the [divided] pieces [of the animals].
15	On the same day the LORD made a covenant (promise, pledge) with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates—
16	[the land of] the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites
17	and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim,
18	the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
19	Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
20	So Sarai said to Abram, "See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will[1] obtain children by her." And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.
21	After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years, Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian [maid], and gave her to her husband Abram to be his [secondary] wife.

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