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<p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Your reward shall be very great.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Abram said, “O Lord Yahweh, what will You give me, as I go on being childless, and the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abram said, “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Since You have given no seed to me, behold, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>one born in my house is my heir.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir; but one who will come forth from your own <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>body, he shall be your heir.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And He brought him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your seed be.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then he believed in Yahweh; and He counted it to him as righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And He said to him, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>possess it.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he said, “O Lord Yahweh, how may I know that I will <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>possess it?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So He said to him, “<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then he <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>brought all these to Him and split them into parts <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>down the middle and laid each part opposite the other; but he did not split apart the birds. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now it happened that when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>terror <i>and</i> great darkness fell upon him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then <i>God</i> said to Abram, “Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But I will also judge the nation to whom they are enslaved, and afterward they will come out with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>many possessions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now it happened that the sun had set, and it was very dark, and behold, <i>there appeared</i> a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On that day Yahweh cut a covenant with Abram, saying, <p class="indent2">“To your seed I have given this land, <p class="indent2">From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>Your very great reward</i><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>son of acquisition</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>Behold</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>a son of</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>inward parts</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>inherit</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i>inherit</i><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> Lit <i>Take</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>took</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>in the midst</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i>a terror of great darkness</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>and shall serve them; 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