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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.
02 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou
give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward
of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
03 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast
given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is
mine heir.
04 And, behold, the word 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.
05 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.
06 And he believed in the Lord; and he
counted it to him for righteousness.
07 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that
brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give
thee this land to inherit it.
08 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I
know that I shall inherit it?
09 And he said unto him, Take me an 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.
10 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.
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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 he 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 thou shalt go to thy fathers in
peace; thou shalt 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 the Lord 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,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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