Genesis 15 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Abram Promised a Son

(Heb 11:8–10 )

Gen 15:1After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

Gen 15:2

Gen 15:2And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.

Gen 15:3

Gen 15:3And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

Gen 15:4

Gen 15:4Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.

Gen 15:5

Gen 15:5And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

Gen 15:6

Gen 15:6And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

Gen 15:7

Gen 15:7And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

Gen 15:8

Gen 15:8And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?

Gen 15:9

Gen 15:9And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.

Gen 15:10

Gen 15:10All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.

Gen 15:11

Gen 15:11And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.

Gen 15:12

Gen 15:12Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

Gen 15:13

Gen 15:13And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

Gen 15:14

Gen 15:14But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.

Gen 15:15

Gen 15:15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

Gen 15:16

Gen 15:16And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

Gen 15:17

Gen 15:17Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.

Gen 15:18

Gen 15:18In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Gen 15:19

Gen 15:19The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

Gen 15:20

Gen 15:20And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

Gen 15:21

Gen 15:21And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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Genesis 15 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Abram Promised a Son

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