15:1After 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.
15:2And
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?
15:3And
Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no
seed: and, lo, one born in my
house is mine heir.
15:4And, 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.
15:5And 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.
15:6And he believed in
Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for
righteousness.
15:7And he said unto him,
I am Jehovah that brought thee out of
Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
15:8And he said, O
Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9And 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.
15:10And 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.
15:11And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and
Abram drove them away.
15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 15:13And 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; 15:14and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15:15But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 15:17And 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. 15:18In 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: 15:19the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 15:20and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 15:21and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
