Genesis 15:8-21
God Confirms His Promise

8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

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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.

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10 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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11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

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

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13 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 four hundred years;

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

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15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

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

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17 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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18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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

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

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

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