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Chapter 15  
     
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 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
  
2.
 And Abram said, Lord God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
  
3.
 And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
  
4.
 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him in the dream, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir.
  
5.
 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
  
6.
 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
  
7.
 And he said unto him, I am the Lord God that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
  
8.
 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? But there was no answer.
 
9.
 And so Abram took a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon up to the Altar he had made to worship the Lord.
  
10.
 And he took unto him all these, and sacrificed and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
  
11.
 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
  
12.
 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
  
13.
 And in a deep dream, a voice said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
  
14.
 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
  
15.
 And you shall go to thy fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
  
16.
 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
  
17.
 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
  
18.
 In the same day God 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:
  
19.
 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
  
20.
 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
  
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 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
  

 
 
 

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