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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.
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.
And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.
Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your 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.
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!
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.
He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
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.
But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
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?
So the Lord said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
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.
Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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.
Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.
Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
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.
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.
You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
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.
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 land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,