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Genesis 15
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God's Covenant With Abram...
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After these events the word of YHWH came to Abram in a vision, saying, 'Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly great.'
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And Abram said, 'Master YHWH, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eli'ezer of Damascus?'
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And Abram said, 'See, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my heir!'
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And see, the word of YHWH came to him, saying, 'This one is not your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your heir.'
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And He brought him outside and said, 'Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.' And He said to him, 'So are your seed.'
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And he believed in YHWH, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness.
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And He said to him, 'I am YHWH, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.'
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And he said, 'Master YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?'
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And 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.'
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And he took all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds.
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And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
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And He said to Abram, `Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
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'But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions.
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'Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good old age.
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'Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.'
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And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
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On the same day YHWH made a covenant with Abram, saying, 'I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,
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with the Qeynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qadmonite,
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and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha'im,
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and the Amorite, and the Kena'anite, and the Girgashite, and the Yebusite.'
Genesis 15
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Genesis 15
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