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16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
18 So the LORD made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
19 the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
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