Chapter 15

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AFTER these things the Word of Yahuah came unto El-Avram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Avram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward.

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And Avram said, Adonai Yahuah, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliy`ezer of Damascus?

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And Avram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.

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And, behold, the Word of Yahuah came unto him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own generation shall be your heir.

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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be.

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And he believed in Yahuah; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

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And he said unto him, I am Yahuah that brought you out of Ur of the Kasdiym, to give you this land to inherit it.

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And he said, Adonai Yahuah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

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And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

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And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

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And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Avram drove them away.

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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Avram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

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And he said unto Avram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

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And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

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But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Emoriym is not yet full.

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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

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In the same day Yahuah cut a covenant with Avram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Mitsrayim unto the great river, the river Perath:

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The Qeyniyiym, and the Qenizziym, and the Qadmoniym,

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And the Chittiym, and the Perizziym, and the Repha'iym,

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And the Emoriym, and the Kena`aniym, and the Girgashiym, and the Yevuciym.



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