Compare: Genesis 15

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After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

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But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

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Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

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Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

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And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

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

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The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

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But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”

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And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”

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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.

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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

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Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

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the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”