13 August 2022 draft-bible
1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and the one who will inherit my estate is Damascus Eliezer?
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed; and behold, one born in my house is my heir.
4 And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, This man will not be your hear, but one who will come out of your own body will be your heir.
5 And he brought him outside, and said, Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.
And he said to him, So your seed will be. 6 And he believed in Yahweh, and he credited it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said to him, I am Yahweh, who brought your out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?
9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a female goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other, but the birds he did not divide. 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him. 13 And he said to Abram, Know for certain that your seed will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. And they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge. And afterward they will come out with great possessions. 15 But you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.
17 Now, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 [the land of] the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
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