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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 15 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Genesis 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/14.htm" title="Genesis 14">◄</a> Genesis 15 <a href="../genesis/16.htm" title="Genesis 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Promise to Abram</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_1"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.1" class="v0_15_1">1</span>Later the <span class="nd">Lord</span> spoke to Abram in a vision, “Abram, don't be afraid! I will protect you and reward you greatly.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_2"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.2" class="v0_15_2">2</span>But Abram answered, “<span class="nd">Lord</span> All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own.<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.2!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v0_15_3"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.3" class="v0_15_3">3</span>You have not given me any children, and this servant of mine will inherit everything.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_4"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.4" class="v0_15_4">4</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> replied, “No, he won't! You will have a son of your own, and everything you have will be his.” </span><span class="v0_15_5"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.5" class="v0_15_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> took Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have.” </span><span class="v0_15_6"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.6" class="v0_15_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Abram believed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, so the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was pleased with him and accepted him.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> Makes Another Promise to Abram</h3><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_7"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.7" class="v0_15_7">7</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Abram, “I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_8"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.8" class="v0_15_8">8</span>Abram asked, “<span class="nd">Lord</span> God, how can I know the land will be mine?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_9"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.9" class="v0_15_9">9</span>Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> told him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove, and a young pigeon.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_10"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.10" class="v0_15_10">10</span>Abram obeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. Then he cut<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half. </span><span class="v0_15_11"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.11" class="v0_15_11">11</span>And when birds came down to eat the animals, Abram chased them away.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_12"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.12" class="v0_15_12">12</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and everything became dark and frightening. </span><span class="v0_15_13"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.13-Gen.15.15" class="v0_15_13">13-15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.13-Gen.15.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Then the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_15_13">Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_15_13">But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for 400 years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_15_16"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.16" class="v0_15_16">16</span>Four generations later,<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.16!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v0_15_17"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.17" class="v0_15_17">17</span>Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and a flaming fire passed between the two halves of each animal. </span><span class="v0_15_18"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.18" class="v0_15_18">18</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.18!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> At that time the <span class="nd">Lord</span> made an agreement with Abram and told him:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v0_15_18">I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River<a href="#fn" id="link_Gen.15.18!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River. </span><span class="v0_15_19"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.19" class="v0_15_19">19</span>They will possess the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, </span><span class="v0_15_20"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.20" class="v0_15_20">20</span>the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites, </span><span class="v0_15_21"><span class="reftext" id="Gen.15.21" class="v0_15_21">21</span>the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">And … own: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">cut: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In Hebrew “cut” sounds something like “agreement.” What follows shows that the <char style="nd">Lord</char> is making an agreement with Abram.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Four generations later: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">This may refer to the “400 years” of verses 13-15.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">people who live here: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Amorites,” a name sometimes used of the people who lived in Palestine before the Israelites.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">smoking cooking pot: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. The smoke and fire represent the presence of the <char style="nd">Lord</char>.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">15.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Shihor River: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Joshua 13.2-7.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. 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