Gen 15 | ABEn | STEP | And after these words came the word of the lord to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear Abram, I will shield you. Your wage [ 3 much 1 will be 2 exceedingly].

‏ Genesis 15

CHAPTER 15 God Promises Offspring

1 And after these words came the word of the lord to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear Abram, I will shield you. Your wage [³much ¹will be ²exceedingly]. 2 [³says ¹And ²Abram], Master, O lord, what will you give to me, for I am wasting away childless, but the son of Masek of my native-born maid servant, this Damascus Eliezer is heir? 3 And Abram said, Since to me you gave not a seed, then my native-born servant will be heir to me. 4 And straightly the voice of the lord came to him, saying, [²will not ³be heir ⁴to you ¹This one], another will come forth from you, this one will be heir to you. 5 And he led him outside, and said to him, Look up indeed into the heaven, and count out the stars, if you are able to count them! And he said, Thus will be your seed. 6 And Abram trusted in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness. 7 And he said to him, I am the God leading you from out of the place of the Chaldeans, so as to give to you this land to inherit. 8 And he said, Master, O lord, how will I know that I will inherit it? 9 And he said to him, Take for me a heifer being three years old, and a goat being three years old, and a ram being three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon! 10 And he took to himself all these, and he divided them in the middle, and put them facing one another; but the birds he did not divide. 11 [³came down ¹And ²birds] upon the [³bodies ¹pieces ²of their], and [²sat down ³with them ¹Abram]. 12 And about [²of the sun ¹the descent] a change of state fell upon Abram. And behold, [³fear ²dark ¹a great] fell upon him. 13 And it was said to Abram, In knowing you will know that [³a sojourner ²will be ¹your seed] in a land not their own, and they will enslave them, and will afflict them, and humble them four hundred years. 14 But the nation which ever they may be slave to, I will judge. And after these things they shall come forth here with [²belongings ¹much]. 15 But you shall go forth to your fathers with peace, being entombed in [²old age ¹a good]. 16 And the fourth generation shall return here, for not yet have [⁵been filled up ¹the ²sins ³of the ⁴Amorites] unto the present. 17 And when the sun was in descent, a flame came, and behold, there was an oven smoking; and there were lamps of fire which went through in the midst of these pieces. 18 In that day the lord ordained a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the river of the great Euphrates, 19 the Kenites, and the Kenizites, and the Kadmonites, 20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Raphaim, 21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.