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But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death.
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Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."
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When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses.
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That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria -
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the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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