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God's Covenant with Abram
After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.
After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.
The LORD’s Covenant Promise to Abram
Some time later, the LORD spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”
Some time later, the LORD spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”
And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.
But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, what good are all your blessings when I don’t even have a son? Since you’ve given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.
And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.
You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”
And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.
Then the LORD said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”
And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!
Then the LORD took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.
And Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith.
And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.
Then the LORD told him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
God Confirms His Promise
And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?
And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?
But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”
And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
The LORD told 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.”
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.
So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half.
And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.
Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him.
And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.
But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
(As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)
And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.
After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;
the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,