The Bible

Genesis Chapter 15

¹After these things the word of ForeverOne came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward." ²Abram said, "LordOfMine ForeverOne, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" ³Abram said, "Behold, you have given me no children and, behold, one born in my house is my heir." ⁴Behold, the word of ForeverOne came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir." ⁵ForeverOne brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So will your offspring be." ⁶He believed in ForeverOne, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

⁷He said to him, "I am ForeverOne who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." ⁸He said, "LordOfMine ForeverOne, how will I know that I will inherit 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." ¹⁰He brought him all of them, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

¹¹The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

¹²When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

¹³He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

¹⁴I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth; ¹⁵but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

¹⁶In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." ¹⁷When the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

¹⁸In that day ForeverOne made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: ¹⁹the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, ²⁰the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."