Thematic Bible
Genesis 15:1 (show verse)
After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
Genesis 15:2 (show verse)
Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 15:3 (show verse)
Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."
Genesis 15:4 (show verse)
Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."
Genesis 15:5 (show verse)
The LORD brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
Genesis 15:6 (show verse)
And Abram believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:7 (show verse)
He said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it."
Genesis 15:8 (show verse)
He said, "Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
Genesis 15:9 (show verse)
He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
Genesis 15:10 (show verse)
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.
Genesis 15:11 (show verse)
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 (show verse)
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Genesis 15:13 (show verse)
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14 (show verse)
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
Genesis 15:15 (show verse)
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:16 (show verse)
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
Genesis 15:17 (show verse)
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15:18 (show verse)
In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 15:19 (show verse)
the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
Genesis 15:20 (show verse)
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
Genesis 15:21 (show verse)
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."