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After these incidents, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram; I am your Shield; your reward is exceedingly great."
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And Abram said, "O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my household is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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And Abram said, "Behold, You have given me no seed, and behold, one of my household will inherit me."
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And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "This one will not inherit you, but the one who will spring from your innards-he will inherit you."
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And He took him outside, and He said, "Please look heavenward and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So will be your seed."
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And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him as righteousness.
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And He said to him, "I am the Lord, Who brought you forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
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And he said, "0 Lord God, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
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And He said to him, "Take for Me three heifers and three goats and three rams, and a turtle dove and a young bird."
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And he took for Him all these, and he divided them in the middle, and he placed each part opposite its mate, but he did not divide the birds.
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And the birds of prey descended upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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Now the sun was ready to set, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, a fright, a great darkness was falling upon him.
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And He said to Abram, "You shall surely know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will enslave them and oppress them, for four hundred years.
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And also the nation that they will serve will I judge, and afterwards they will go forth with great possessions.
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But you will come to your forefathers in peace; you will be buried in a good old age.
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And the fourth generation will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites will not be complete until then."
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Now it came to pass that the sun had set, and it was dark, and behold, a smoking furnace and a fire brand, which passed between these parts.
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On that day, the Lord formed a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt until the great river, the Euphrates river.
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The Kenites, the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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And the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim,
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And the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites."
