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Genesis 15 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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The LORD’s Covenant Promise to Abram
(Heb 11:8–10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - Some time later, the LORD spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, what good are all your blessings when I don’t even have a son? Since you’ve given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - Then the LORD said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - Then the LORD took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - And Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - Then the LORD told him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - But Abram replied, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - The LORD told him, “Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - Then the LORD said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt[fn] to the great Euphrates River—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - the land now occupied by 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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NLT Footnotes
Hebrew the river of Egypt, referring either to an eastern branch of the Nile River or to the Brook of Egypt in the Sinai (see Num 34:5).
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Genesis Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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