Genesis 15
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Genesis 15
God’s Covenant with Abram
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Gen 21.17; 26.24; Deut 33.29; Prov 11.8; Dan 10.1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” 2#Acts 7.5But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”#15.2 Meaning of Heb uncertain 3#Gen 14.14And Abram said, “You have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house is to be my heir.” 4#Gal 4.28But the word of the Lord came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.” 5#Gen 22.17; Ps 147.4; Jer 33.22; Rom 4.18; Heb 11.12He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” 6And he believed the Lord, and the Lord#15.6 Heb he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
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Gen 11.31; 13.15, 17 Then he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.” 8#Lk 1.18But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 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.” 10#Lev 1.17; Jer 34.18He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other, but he did not cut the birds in two. 11And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
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As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him. 13#Ex 12.40; Acts 7.6Then the Lord#15.13 Heb he said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years, 14#Ex 12.36but I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15#Gen 25.8As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16#1 Kings 21.26And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
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Jer 34.18, 19 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18#Gen 12.7; 24.7; Ex 23.31; Num 34.3; Deut 11.24; Josh 1.4On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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Genesis 15
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1 And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great."
2 And Abram said: "Lord God, what will you give to me? I may go without children. And the son of the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus."
3 And Abram added: "Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir."
4 And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: "This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your heir."
5 And he brought him outside, and he said to him, "Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can." And he said to him, "So also will your offspring be."
6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7 And he said to him, "I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it."
8 But he said, "Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?"
9 And the Lord responded by saying: "Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-dove and a pigeon."
10 Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
11 And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
13 And it was said to him: "Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years.
14 Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time."
17 Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
18 On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates:
19 the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites
20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,
21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
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