Genesis 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

God’s Covenant with Abram

(Heb 11:8–10 )

Gen 15:1After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

Gen 15:2

Gen 15:2But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue[fn] childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Gen 15:3

Gen 15:3And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”

Gen 15:4

Gen 15:4And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son[fn] shall be your heir.”

Gen 15:5

Gen 15:5And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Gen 15:6

Gen 15:6And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Gen 15:7

Gen 15:7And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

Gen 15:8

Gen 15:8But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”

Gen 15:9

Gen 15:9He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

Gen 15:10

Gen 15:10And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.

Gen 15:11

Gen 15:11And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

Gen 15:12

Gen 15:12As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.

Gen 15:13

Gen 15:13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.

Gen 15:14

Gen 15:14But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

Gen 15:15

Gen 15:15As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Gen 15:16

Gen 15:16And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Gen 15:17

Gen 15:17When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

Gen 15:18

Gen 15:18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give[fn] this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Gen 15:19

Gen 15:19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

Gen 15:20

Gen 15:20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

Gen 15:21

Gen 15:21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

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ESV Footnotes

(15:2)

Or I shall die

(15:4)

Hebrew what will come out of your own loins

(15:18)

Or have given

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God’s Covenant with Abram

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