Genesis 15

About Genesis Genesis tells of creation, the first sin, the flood, and God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.SelectedGenesis 15:1Ask

And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?SelectedGenesis 15:2Ask

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.SelectedGenesis 15:3Ask

And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.SelectedGenesis 15:4Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 15:5Ask

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.SelectedGenesis 15:6Ask

And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.SelectedGenesis 15:7Ask

And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?SelectedGenesis 15:8Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 15:9Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 15:10Ask

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.SelectedGenesis 15:11Ask

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.SelectedGenesis 15:12Ask

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;SelectedGenesis 15:13Ask

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.SelectedGenesis 15:14Ask

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

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.SelectedGenesis 15:16Ask

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.SelectedGenesis 15:17Ask

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:SelectedGenesis 15:18Ask

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,SelectedGenesis 15:19Ask

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,SelectedGenesis 15:20Ask

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.SelectedGenesis 15:21Ask

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