# Genesis 15 • --- ### 1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I thy shield, thy exceeding great reward. ### 2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house this Eliezer of Damascus? ### 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. ### 4 And, behold, the word of the Lord unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that 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 tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. ### 6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. ### 7 And he said unto him, I the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. ### 8 And he said, Lord God, 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 divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but 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, 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 that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; ### 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. ### 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ### 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites not yet full. ### 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. ### 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: ### 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.