Genesis 15:7
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Gen 15:7
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And He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it."
Gen 15:8
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He said, "O Lord GOD, how may I know that I will possess it?"
Gen 15:9
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So He said to him, "Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Gen 15:10
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Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.
Gen 15:11
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The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Gen 15:12
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Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror {and} great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13
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{God} said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.
Gen 15:14
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~"But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.
Gen 15:15
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~"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
Gen 15:16
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~"Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."
Gen 15:17
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It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, {there appeared} a smoking oven and a flaming torch which passed between these pieces.
Gen 15:18
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
Gen 15:19
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the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite
Gen 15:20
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and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim
Gen 15:21
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and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite."
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