Bible (King James)/Genesis/Chapter 15

After theſe things the word of the LORD came unto Abram ^[1] in a viſion, ſaying, ^[2] Fear not, Abram: I am thy ^[3] ſhield, and thy exceeding ^[4] great reward.

2 And Abram ſaid, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, ^[5] ſeeing I go childleſs, and the ſteward of my houſe is this Eliezer of Damaſcus?

3 And Abram ſaid, Behold, to me thou haſt given no ſeed: and, lo, ^[6] one born in my houſe is mine heir.

4 ¶ And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, ſaying, This ſhall not be thine heir; but he that ^[7] ſhall come forth out of thine own bowels ſhall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and ſaid, Look now toward heaven, and ^[8] tell the ^[9] ſtars, if thou be able to number them: and he ſaid unto him, ^[10] So ſhall thy ſeed be.

6 ¶ And he ^[11] believed in the LORD; and he ^[12] counted it to him for righteouſneſs.

7 ¶ And he ſaid unto him, I am the LORD that ^[13] brought thee out of ^[14] Ur of the Chaldees, ^[15] to give thee this land to inherit it.

8 And he ſaid, LORD God, ^[16] whereby ſhall I know that I ſhall inherit it?

9 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.

10 And he took unto him all theſe, and ^[17] divided them in the midſt, and laid each piece one againſt another: but ^[18] the birds divided he not.

11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcaſes, Abram drove them away.

12 ¶ And when the ſun was going down, ^[19] a deep ſleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkneſs fell upon him.

13 And he ſaid unto Abram, Know of a ſurety ^[20] that thy ſeed ſhall be a ſtranger in a land that is not theirs, and ſhall ſerve them; and ^[21] they ſhall afflict them four hundred years;

14 And alſo that nation, whom they ſhall ſerve, ^[22] will I judge: and afterward ^[23] ſhall they come out with great ſubſtance.

15 And ^[24] thou ſhalt go ^[25] to thy fathers in peace; ^[26] thou ſhalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But ^[27] in the fourth generation they ſhall come hither again: for the iniquity ^[28] of the Amorites ^[29] is not yet full.

17 And it came to paſs, that, when the ſun went down, and it was dark, behold a ſmoking furnace, and †† Heb. a lamp of fire. a burning lamp that ^[30] paſſed between thoſe pieces.

​18 In the ſame day the LORD ^[31] made a covenant with Abram, ſaying, ^[32] Unto thy ſeed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgaſhites, and the Jebuſites.