Mistari Maarufu ya Biblia kutoka Genesis 15

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And he believed the LORD, and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.

After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

But the word of the LORD came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.”

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years

But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”