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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Covenant with Abram<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../romans/4.htm">Romans 4:1–12</a>; <a href ="../hebrews/11.htm#8">Hebrews 11:8–19</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After these words, the word of Jehovah was to Abram in a vision, saying, Thou shalt not fear, Abram: I a shield to thee, thy reward great exceedingly.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Abram will say, My Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give to me, and I going childless, and the son of Masek in my house, he Eliezer of Damascus? <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And behold, the word of Jehovah was to him, saying, This shall not inherit thee, for truly he who shall come forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he believed in Jehovah; and it shall be reckoned to him justice. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he will say to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee from Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">God Confirms His Promise<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/34.htm">Numbers 34:1–15</a>; <a href ="../romans/4.htm#13">Romans 4:13–25</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he will say, My Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And he will take to him all these, and he will divide them, asunder in the midst, and will put each of its parts divided, opposite its companion: and the birds he divided not. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the birds will come down upon the dead carcases, and Abram will drive them together.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the sun shall be going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And also the nation whom they shall serve, I will judge, and after this they shall come forth with great substance. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And thou shalt go to thy fathers in tranquillity; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither: for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till now.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the sun shall be going down, and it was thick darkness, and behold a furnace of smoke and a lamp of fire that passed over between these pieces.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day Jehovah cut out a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed gave I this land from the river of Egypt, to the great river, the river Euphrates:<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The Kenites and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites; <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the Amorites and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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