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Genesis 15
Genesis 15
English GNT (Good News Translation)
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After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward.”
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But Abram answered, “Sovereign Lord, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.
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You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property.”
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Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: “This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir.”
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The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”
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Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him.
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Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
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But Abram asked, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?”
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He answered, “Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.”
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Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
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Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
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When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
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The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.
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But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.
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You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.
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It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”
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When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.
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Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
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including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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