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Genesis 15 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Abram Promised a Son

(Heb 11:8–10 )
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day Jehovah 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:20 - and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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