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Genesis 15 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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God’s Covenant with Abram
God’s Promise to Abram
(Heb. 11:8–10 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - Then He said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - And he said, “Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - “And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - “Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - “But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - “the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:20 - “the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - “the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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