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And an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abram says, “Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And behold, the word of YHWH [is] to him, saying, “This [one] will not be your heir; but he who comes out from your bowels, he will be your heir”; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and He brings him out outside and says, “Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them”; and He says to him, “Thus is your seed.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And He says to him, “I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it”;<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and he says, “Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?” <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And He says to him, “Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a female goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird”; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and he takes all these to Him, and separates them in the midst, and puts each piece opposite its fellow, but the bird he has not divided; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep has fallen on Abram, and behold, a terror of great darkness is falling on him; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and He says to Abram, “knowing—know that your seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and you come to your fathers in peace; you are 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 turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And it comes to pass—the sun has gone in, and thick darkness has been and behold, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which has passed over between those pieces.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day has YHWH made with Abram a covenant, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River,<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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