Genesis 15:3-13

3 You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property."
4 Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: "This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir."
5 The Lord took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that." 1
6 Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him. 2
7 Then the Lord said to him, "I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."
8 But Abram asked, "Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?"
9 He answered, "Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon."
10 Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
11 Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12 When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him. 3
13 The Lord said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years. 4

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Cross References 4

  • 1. 15.5Romans 4.18;Hebrews 11.12.
  • 2. 15.6 +21Macc 2.52; +1Ro 4.3;Galatians 3.6;James 2.23.
  • 3. 15.12Job 4.13, 14.
  • 4. 15.13Exodus 1.1-14;Acts 7.6.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.