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 <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1">The Abrahamic Covenant</div><div class="m"> 1After these events, the word of the Lord came&#160; # 15:1 1Sm 15:10; 2Sm 7:4; 1Kg 6:11; Is 38:4; Jr 1:2 to Abram in a vision:</div><div class="qc">Do not be&#160;afraid,&#160; # 15:1 Gn 26:24; Is 41:10; Jr 30:10; Lk 1:13,30 Abram.</div><div class="qc">I am your&#160;shield;&#160; # 15:1 Dt 33:29; 2Sm 22:3,31; Ps 3:3; 7:10</div><div class="qc">your reward will&#160;be very&#160;great.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 2But Abram said, &#8220;Lord God, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?&#160;&#8221;&#160; # 15:2 Hb obscure 3Abram continued, &#8220;Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in&#160; # 15:3 Lit a son of my house will be my heir.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 4Now the word of the Lord came to him: &#8220;This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body&#160; # 15:4 Lit loins will be your heir.&#8221; 5He took him outside and said, &#8220;Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;Your offspring will be that numerous.&#8221;&#160; # 15:5 Gn 22:17; 26:4; Ex 32:13; Dt 1:10; 10:22; 1Ch 27:23; Rm 4:18; Heb 11:12</div><div class="p"> 6Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.&#160; # 15:6 Rm 4:3,9,22; Gl 3:6; Jms 2:23</div><div class="p"> 7He also said to him, &#8220;I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.&#8221;&#160; # 15:7 Gn 11:31; 12:1; Neh 9:7&#8211;8; Ac 7:2&#8211;4</div><div class="p"> 8But he said, &#8220;Lord God, how can I know&#160; # 15:8 Jdg 6:17; 2Kg 20:8; Ps 86:17; Is 7:11&#8211;13; Lk 1:18 that I will possess it?&#160;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 9He said to him, &#8220;Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 10So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds&#160; # 15:10 Lv 1:17 in half. 11Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12As the sun was setting, a deep sleep&#160; # 15:12 Gn 2:21 came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.</div><div class="p"> 13Then the Lord said to Abram,&#160; # 15:13&#8211;14 Ac 7:6&#8211;7 &#8220;Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens&#160; # 15:13 Ex 22:21; 23:9 for four hundred years&#160; # 15:13 Ex 12:40; Gl 3:17 in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.&#160; # 15:13 Lit will serve them and they will oppress them 14However, I will judge the nation they serve,&#160; # 15:14 Ex 6:6; 7:4; 12:12 and afterward they will go out with many possessions.&#160; # 15:14 Ex 3:22 15But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.&#160; # 15:15 Gn 25:8; 47:30 16In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.&#8221;&#160; # 15:16 Lit Amorites is not yet complete,# 15:16 Lv 18:24&#8211;28; Dn 8:23; Mt 23:32; 1Th 2:16</div><div class="p"> 17When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, &#8220;I give this land to your offspring,&#160; # 15:18 Gn 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 24:7; 26:4; Nm 34:2; Dt 34:4; Jos 21:43; Neh 9:8; Ac 7:5 from the Brook of Egypt&#160; # 15:18 Ex 23:31; Nm 34:1&#8211;15; Dt 1:7&#8211;8; 2Kg 24:7 to the great river, the Euphrates River: 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20Hethites, Perizzites, Rephaim, 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.&#8221;</div>
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After these events, the word of the LORD came  to Abram in a vision:
Do not be afraid,  Abram.
I am your shield; 
your reward will be very great.

But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what can you give me, since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? ”  Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in  my house will be my heir.”
Now the word of the LORD came to him: “This one will not be your heir; instead, one who comes from your own body  will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.” 
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. 
He also said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 
But he said, “Lord GOD, how can I know  that I will possess it? ”
He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds  in half. Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. As the sun was setting, a deep sleep  came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.
Then the LORD said to Abram,  “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens  for four hundred years  in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.  However, I will judge the nation they serve,  and afterward they will go out with many possessions.  But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.  In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”  ,
When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring,  from the Brook of Egypt  to the great river, the Euphrates River: the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hethites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

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