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7 Then he said to him, "I am ADONAI, who brought you out from Ur-Kasdim to give you this land as your possession."
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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.”
8 He replied, "ADONAI, God, how am I to know that I will possess it?"
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But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9 He answered him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove and a young pigeon."
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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.”
10 He brought him all these, cut the animals in two and placed the pieces opposite each other; but he didn't cut the birds in half.
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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.
11 Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Avram drove them away.
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Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell on Avram; horror and great darkness came over him.
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 ADONAI said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.
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Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
14 But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15 As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 Only in the fourth generation will your descendants come back here, because only then will the Emori be ripe for punishment."
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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 had set and there was thick darkness, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared, which passed between these animal parts.
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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 That day ADONAI made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants - from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the 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 territory of the Keni, the K'nizi, the Kadmoni,
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the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 the Hitti, the P'rizi, the Refa'im,
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 the Emori, the Kena'ani, the Girgashi and the Y'vusi."
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
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