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Genesis 15 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Abram Promised a Son

(Heb 11:8–10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - 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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - 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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - 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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - 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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - 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 -

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:20 - Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
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Genesis Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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