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Genesis 15 📜 📕 ↷
God's Covenant with Abram
1 WHEN these things therefore were done, the word of our Lord was made to Abram by a vision saying: fear not Abram, I am thy Protector, and thy reward exceeding great.📜💬📚
2 And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.📜💬📚
3 And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and Lo my servant born in my house shall be mine heir.📜💬📚
4 And immediately the word of our Lord came to him saying: He shall not be thine heir: but he that shall come out of thy womb him shalt thou have thine heir.📜💬📚
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: so shall thy seed be.📜💬📚
6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.📜💬📚
7 And he said to him: I am the Lord that brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees for to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.📜💬📚
God Confirms His Promise
8 But he said: Lord God, how may I know that I shall possess it?📜💬📚
9 And our Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.📜💬📚
10 Who taking all these, divided them by the midst, and laid each two pieces arow one against the other: but the birds he divided not.📜💬📚
11 And the fowls lighted upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.📜💬📚
12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror invaded him.📜💬📚
13 And it was said unto him: Know and foreknow that a pilgrim shall thy seed be in a land not their own (and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them) four hundred years.📜💬📚
14 But the Nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge: and after this they shall go forth with great substance.📜💬📚
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, buried in a good old age.📜💬📚
16 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrheans are not at the full until this present time.📜💬📚
17 Therefore when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a furnace smoking, and a flake of fire passing between those divisions.📜💬📚
18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land from the river of AEgypt even to the great river Euphrates.📜💬📚
19 the Cineans, and Cenezeites, the Cedmonites,📜💬📚
20 and the Hethits, and the Pherezits, the Raphaims also,📜💬📚
21 and the Amorreans and the Chanaanites, and Gargasites, and the Jebusites.📜💬📚
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