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Genesis 15: The L 'S Covenant With Abram

God promises Abram that his descendants will inherit the land of Canaan, despite Abram currently being childless. As a sign of this covenant, God instructs Abram to bring various animals and cut them in half. As the sun sets, a smoking firepot and blazing torch pass between the pieces, symbolizing God's promise. God further reveals that Abram's descendants will be slaves for 400 years but will later return to Canaan with great wealth.

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Genesis 15: The L 'S Covenant With Abram

God promises Abram that his descendants will inherit the land of Canaan, despite Abram currently being childless. As a sign of this covenant, God instructs Abram to bring various animals and cut them in half. As the sun sets, a smoking firepot and blazing torch pass between the pieces, symbolizing God's promise. God further reveals that Abram's descendants will be slaves for 400 years but will later return to Canaan with great wealth.

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GENESIS 15

The LORD’s Covenant With Abram

1After this, the word of the LORDcame to Abram in a vision:

“Do not be afraid, Abram.

I am your shield,

your very great reward.”

2But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the

one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3And Abram said, “You have given me

no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

4Then the word of the LORDcame to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is

your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” 5He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky

and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your

offspring be.”

6Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

7He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you

this land to take possession of it.”

8But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

9So the LORDsaid to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along

with a dove and a young pigeon.”

10Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each

other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11Then birds of prey came down on the

carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came

over him. 13Then the LORDsaid to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your

descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and

mistreated there. 14But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will
come out with great possessions. 15You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be

buried at a good old age. 16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for

the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch

appeared and passed between the pieces. 18On that day the LORDmade a covenant with Abram

and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the

Euphrates— 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20Hittites, Perizzites,

Rephaites, 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”

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