Ge 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great
reward.
Ge 15:2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Ge 15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one
born in my house is mine heir.
Ge 15:4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall
not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels
shall be thine heir.
Ge 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven,
and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So
shall thy seed be.
Ge 15:6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
Ge 15:7 And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of
the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Ge 15:8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Ge 15:9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a
she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove,
and a young pigeon.
Ge 15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and
laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Ge 15:11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them
away.
Ge 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and,
lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Ge 15:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall
afflict them four hundred years;
Ge 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Ge 15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in
a good old age.
Ge 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Ge 15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark,
behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those
pieces.
Ge 15:18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto
thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great
river, the river Euphrates:
Ge 15:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
Ge 15:20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
Ge 15:21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the
Jebusites.