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Genesis 15 :: New International Version (NIV)

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The Lord’s Covenant With Abram

(Heb 11:8–10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,[fn] your very great reward.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit[fn] my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[fn] be.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - So the LORD said to him, “Bring 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 - Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - You, however, 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 come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[fn] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—

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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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NIV Footnotes
Or sovereign
Or shield; / your reward will be very great
The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Or seed
Or river
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Genesis Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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