15:1 After
these
things
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
Abram
in
a
vision:
"Fear
not,
Abram,
I
am
your
shield;
your
reward
shall
be
very
great."
15:2 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"
15:3 And
Abram
said,
"Behold,
you
have
given
me
no
offspring,
and
a
member
of
my
household
will
be
my
heir."
15:4 And
behold,
the
word
of
the
LORD
came
to
him:
"This
man
shall
not
be
your
heir;
your
very
own
son
shall
be
your
heir."
15:5 And
he
brought
him
outside
and
said,
"Look
toward
heaven,
and
number
the
stars,
if
you
are
able
to
number
them."
Then
he
said
to
him,
"So
shall
your
offspring
be."
15:6 And
he
believed
the
LORD,
and
he
counted
it
to
him
as
righteousness.
15:7 And
he
said
to
him,
"I
am
the
LORD
who
brought
you
out
from
Ur
of
the
Chaldeans
to
give
you
this
land
to
possess."
15:8 But
he
said,
"O
Lord
GOD,
how
am
I
to
know
that
I
shall
possess
it"
15:9 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."
15:10 And
he
brought
him
all
these,
cut
them
in
half,
and
laid
each
half
over
against
the
other.
But
he
did
not
cut
the
birds
in
half.
15:11 And
when
birds
of
prey
came
down
on
the
carcasses,
Abram
drove
them
away.
15:12 As
the
sun
was
going
down,
a
deep
sleep
fell
on
Abram.
And
behold,
dreadful
and
great
darkness
fell
upon
him.
15:13 Then
the
LORD
said
to
Abram,
"Know
for
certain
that
your
offspring
will
be
sojourners
in
a
land
that
is
not
theirs
and
will
be
servants
there,
and
they
will
be
afflicted
for
four
hundred
years.
15:14 But
I
will
bring
judgment
on
the
nation
that
they
serve,
and
afterward
they
shall
come
out
with
great
possessions.
15:15 As
for
yourself,
you
shall
go
to
your
fathers
in
peace;
you
shall
be
buried
in
a
good
old
age.
15:16 And
they
shall
come
back
here
in
the
fourth
generation,
for
the
iniquity
of
the
Amorites
is
not
yet
complete."
15:17 When
the
sun
had
gone
down
and
it
was
dark,
behold,
a
smoking
fire
pot
and
a
flaming
torch
passed
between
these
pieces.
15:18 On
that
day
the
LORD
made
a
covenant
with
Abram,
saying,
"To
your
offspring
I
give
this
land,
from
the
river
of
Egypt
to
the
great
river,
the
river
Euphrates,
15:19 the
land
of
the
Kenites,
the
Kenizzites,
the
Kadmonites,
15:20 the
Hittites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Rephaim,
15:21 the
Amorites,
the
Canaanites,
the
Girgashites
and
the
Jebusites."