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God’s Covenant with Abram
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”
And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my 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 he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
And he believed the Lord, and he counted 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 the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to 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.”
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, 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 brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.
Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and 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.
Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall 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 they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,