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GenesisWEB
Genesis 15:1WEB
After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:2WEB
Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:3WEB
Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
Genesis 15:4WEB
Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:5WEB
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:6WEB
He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:7WEB
He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:8WEB
He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:9WEB
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
Genesis 15:10WEB
He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
Genesis 15:11WEB
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12WEB
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Genesis 15:13WEB
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14WEB
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
Genesis 15:15WEB
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:16WEB
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Genesis 15:17WEB
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15:18WEB
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Genesis 15:19WEB
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15:20WEB
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:21WEB
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.