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And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
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But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
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And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
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And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.
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And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
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And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
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But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
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And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.