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your reward shall be very great.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>But Abram said, “O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-363a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, and so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>But the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And he believed the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-367b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> reckoned it to him as righteousness.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then he said to him, “I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>But he said, “O Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span><span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-374c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>On that day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 15:2">Genesis 15:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 15:6">Genesis 15:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Genesis 15:13">Genesis 15:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>he</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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