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1 | After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a
vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward. |
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2 | And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of
Damascus? |
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3 | And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and,
lo, one born in my house is mine heir. |
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4 | And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This
shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of
thine own bowels shall be thine heir. |
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5 | And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them:
and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
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6 | And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for
righteousness. |
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7 | And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of
Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. |
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8 | And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall
inherit it? |
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9 | And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old,
and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years
old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. |
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10 | And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst,
and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided
he not. |
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11 | And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove
them away. |
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12 | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
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13 | And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall
be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve
them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; |
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14 | And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
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15 | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be
buried in a good old age. |
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16 | But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for
the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. |
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17 | And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was
dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed
between those pieces. |
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18 | In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt
unto the great river, the river Euphrates: |
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19 | The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, |
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20 | And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, |
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21 | And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and
the Jebusites. |
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