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I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!" <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But look, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars--if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?" <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The LORD said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River--<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. 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