Genesis 15:1-21 NIV
The Lord’s Covenant With Abram
“Do not
be afraid, Abram.
I Am
your Shield,
your
very Great Reward.”
2But
Abram said, “Sovereign Lord, what can
you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3And
Abram said, “YOU Have Given me no children; so a servant in my household will
be my heir.”
4Then 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.” 5HE Took him outside
and Said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count
them.” Then HE Said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
“I AM The Lord, Who Brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to Give you this land to take possession
of it.”
“Bring me a heifer, a goat
and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10Abram
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.
11Then
birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12As the
sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful
darkness came over him.13Then 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. 14But I
will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out
with great possessions. 15You, however, will go to your ancestors in
peace and be buried at a good old age. 16In the fourth generation your descendants
will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full
measure.”
17When
the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch
appeared and passed between the pieces.
“To your descendants I give
this land, from the Wadi of Egypt
to the great river, the Euphrates— 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites,
Kadmonites, 20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21Amorites,
Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
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