Genesis
Genesis 15
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Genesis 15 — Scripture text (King James Version)
After these things of the LORD came unto in a , saying, Fear not, : I am thy , and thy exceeding great reward. And said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this of ? And said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. And, behold, of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for . And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of , to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, Take me an of three years old, and a she of three years old, and a of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon ; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. And he said unto , Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning that passed between those pieces. In the same day the LORD made a with , saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of unto the great river, the river : The , and the , and the , And the , and the , and the , And the , and the , and the , and the .