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After these things the word of the LORDcame unto Abram in a vision,saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceedinggreatreward.
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And Abramsaid, LordGOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I gochildless, and the stewardof my house is thisEliezer of Damascus?
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And Abramsaid, Behold, to me thou hast givennoseed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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And he brought him forthabroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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And he said, LordGOD,whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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And he said unto him, Take me an 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 laideachpiece one againstanother: but the birdsdivided he not.
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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases,Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleepfell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of greatdarknessfell upon him.
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And he said unto Abram,Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them fourhundredyears;
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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterwardshall they come out with greatsubstance.
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourthgeneration they shall come hitheragain: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yetfull.
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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smokingfurnace, and a burning[a]lamp that passedbetween those pieces.
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In the sameday the LORDmade a covenant with Abram,saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the greatriver, the riverEuphrates:
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The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.