|
|
 |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Abram
Promised a Son |
|
|
 |
|
Genesis 15:1
|
|
After these things the word of the LORD came
to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I am a shield to you; Your
reward shall be very great." |
|
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:2
|
|
Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will You give
me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:3
|
|
And Abram said, "Since You have given no offspring
to me, one born in my house is my heir." |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:4
|
|
Then behold, the word of the LORD came to him,
saying, "This man will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your
own body, he shall be your heir." |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:5
|
|
And He took him outside and said, "Now look
toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He
said to him, "So shall your descendants be." |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:6
|
|
Then he believed in the LORD; and He reckoned
it to him as righteousness. |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:7
|
|
And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought
you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it." |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:8
|
|
He said, "O Lord GOD, how may I know that I
will possess it?" |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:9
|
|
So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old
heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove,
and a young pigeon." |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:10
|
|
Then he brought all these to Him and cut them
in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:11
|
|
The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses,
and Abram drove them away. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:12
|
|
Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep
fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:13
|
|
God said to Abram, "Know for certain that your
descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be
enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:14
|
|
"But I will also judge the nation whom they
will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:15
|
|
"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in
peace; you will be buried at a good old age. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:16
|
|
"Then in the fourth generation they will return
here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete." |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:17
|
|
It came about when the sun had set, that it
was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which
passed between these pieces. |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:18
|
|
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram,
saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as
far as the great river, the river Euphrates: |
|
|
|
|
Genesis 15:19
|
|
the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite
|
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:20
|
|
and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim |
| |
|
|
|
Genesis 15:21
|
|
and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite
and the Jebusite." |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
