translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: GEN

book: Genesis

reference: Genesis 15:1

text: After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.


reference: Genesis 15:2

text: And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?


reference: Genesis 15:3

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


reference: Genesis 15:4

text: And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.


reference: Genesis 15:5

text: And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.


reference: Genesis 15:6

text: And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.


reference: Genesis 15:7

text: And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.


reference: Genesis 15:8

text: And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?


reference: Genesis 15:9

text: And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.


reference: Genesis 15:10

text: And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.


reference: Genesis 15:11

text: And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.


reference: Genesis 15:12

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


reference: Genesis 15:13

text: And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;


reference: Genesis 15:14

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


reference: Genesis 15:15

text: But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.


reference: Genesis 15:16

text: And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.


reference: Genesis 15:17

text: And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.


reference: Genesis 15:18

text: In that day Jehovah 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:


reference: Genesis 15:19

text: the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,


reference: Genesis 15:20

text: and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,


reference: Genesis 15:21

text: and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.