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The LORD's Covenant Promise to Abram
Chapter 15
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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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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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You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir."
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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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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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And Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD counted him as righteous because of his faith.
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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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But Abram replied, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?"
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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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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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Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
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As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him.
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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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But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.
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(As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)
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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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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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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 to the great Euphrates River--
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the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."