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I <i>am</i> your shield, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>your exceedingly great reward.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>But Abram said, “Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>, what will You give me, seeing I <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>go childless, and the heir of my house <i>is</i> Eliezer of Damascus?” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span> born in my house is my heir!”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And behold, the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <i>came</i> to him, saying, “This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he believed in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then He said to him, “I <i>am</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he said, “Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">God</span>, how shall I know that I will inherit it?”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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.” </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror <i>and</i> great darkness fell upon him. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land <i>that is</i> not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Now as for you, you shall <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites <i>is</i> not yet complete.”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>On the same day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> made a covenant with Abram, saying:</span></p><p><span class="text Gen-15-18">“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-362a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Genesis 15:1">Genesis 15:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>your reward shall be very great</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-363b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Genesis 15:2">Genesis 15:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>am childless</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-364c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Genesis 15:3">Genesis 15:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>a servant</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-376d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Genesis 15:15">Genesis 15:15</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Die and join your ancestors</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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