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Genesis 15:11-21

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11 When vultures swooped down on the carcasses, Abram waved them off.
12 After the sun set, Abram slept deeply. A terrifying and deep darkness settled over him.
13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Have no doubt that your descendants will live as immigrants in a land that isn't their own, where they will be oppressed slaves for four hundred years.
14 But after I punish the nation they serve, they will leave it with great wealth.
15 As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried after a good long life.
16 The fourth generation will return here since the Amorites' wrongdoing won't have reached its peak until then."
17 After the sun had set and darkness had deepened, a smoking vessel with a fiery flame passed between the split-open animals.
18 That day the LORD cut a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from Egypt's river to the great Euphrates,
19 together with the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
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Genesis 15:11-21 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 15

This chapter informs us of a gracious appearance of God to Abram, and of a kind promise made unto him, Ge 15:1; of Abram's request for an heir, Ge 15:2,3; of an answer to it, that he should have one, and even a numberless seed, Ge 15:4,5; which he gave credit to, Ge 15:6; upon which he has a fresh promise of the land of Canaan, Ge 15:7; of his inheriting of which he desires a sign, and this was given him, Ge 15:8-12; and at the same time it was predicted to him how long his posterity should be afflicted in a land not theirs, and afterwards come out with great substance, Ge 15:13-16; and the grant of the land of Canaan to his seed is renewed, Ge 15:17-21.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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