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          DASV: Genesis 15    

1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram
in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield,
and your reward will be very great."
2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what will you give me,
since I am still childless, and Eliezer of Damascus is the
heir of my estate?"
3 Then Abram said, "Look, you have given me no children,
so one of my servants will be my heir."

4 Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will
not be your heir. But a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
5 Then he brought him outside, and said, "Look up at the heavens,
and count the stars, if you can count them." Then he said to him,
"that's how many your descendants will be."
6 And Abram believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

7 Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of
Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land as your possession."
8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will inherit
it?"
9 And the LORD said to 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."
10 So Abram brought him all these, and cut them in two,
and laid each half beside the other. But he did not cut the birds in two.
11 And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses,
Abram drove them away.

12 Now as the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep;
and a deep and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants
will be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and they will be slaves
and oppressed there for four hundred years.
14 But I will punish that nation that they will serve,
and afterward they will come out with great wealth.
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried
in a good old age.
16 And they will come back here after fourth generations,
for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."

17 When the sun went down, and it was dark, a smoking firepot
and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18 In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
"To your descendants I have given this land, from the river
of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:
19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.

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