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1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.
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1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."
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2 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?
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2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir.
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3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
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4 And behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir.
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4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
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5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
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5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
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6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
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7 And he said to him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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7 He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
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8 And he said, Lord GOD, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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8 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"
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9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
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9 So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
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10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds he did not divide.
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10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
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11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
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12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
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13 And he said to Abram, Know certainly 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;
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13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
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14 And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
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16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
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17 And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
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17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
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18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
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18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
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19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
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21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
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