Gen 15 | EngLXX | STEP | And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not,Abram, I shield you, your reward shall be very great.

Genesis 15

1 And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not,Abram, I shield you, your reward shall be very great. 2 And Abram said, Masterand Lord, what will you give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masekmy home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascusis mine heir. 3 And Abram said,I am grieved since you have given me no seed, but my home-bornservant shall succeed me. 4 And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be your heir;but he that shall come out of you shall be your heir. 5 And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, ifyou shall be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall your seed be. 6 And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. 7 And he said to him, I am God that brought you out of the land of the Chaldeans, so asto give you this land to inherit. 8 And he said, Masterand Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her thirdyear, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon. 10 So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite toeach other, but the birds he did not divide. 11 And birds came down upon the bodies,even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them. 12 And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and behold! a great gloomy terror falls uponhim. 13 And it was said to Abram, You shall surely know that your seed shall be a sojourner ina land not their won, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years. 14 And the nation whoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall comeforth hither with much property. 15 But you shall depart to your fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites arenot yet filled up, even until now. 17 And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace andlamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces. 18 In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I will give thisland, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates. 19 The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans, 20 and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim, 21 and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.