Thematic Bible
Genesis 15:1 (show verse)
The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.
Genesis 15:2 (show verse)
Abram said: O Jehovah God, what will you give me? I continue childless! The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.
Genesis 15:3 (show verse)
Abram also said: You have given me no offspring. So a slave born in my house is to be my heir.
Genesis 15:4 (show verse)
The word of Jehovah came to him: This man shall not be your heir. No one but your very own issue shall be your heir.
Genesis 15:5 (show verse)
He brought him outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them? He continued: So shall your descendants be.
Genesis 15:6 (show verse)
He believed in Jehovah. Jehovah considered Abram's faith as his righteousness.
Genesis 15:7 (show verse)
Then God said to him: I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.
Genesis 15:8 (show verse)
Abram replied: O Jehovah God, how will I know that I shall possess it?
Genesis 15:9 (show verse)
He (God) 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)
Abram brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other. He did not cut the birds in two.
Genesis 15:11 (show verse)
When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 (show verse)
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.
Genesis 15:13 (show verse)
Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14 (show verse)
I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve! Afterward they will come out with great possessions.
Genesis 15:15 (show verse)
As for yourself, you shall go to your ancestors in peace. You shall be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:16 (show verse)
They shall come back here in the fourth generation. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
Genesis 15:17 (show verse)
The sun went down and it was dark. A smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
Genesis 15:18 (show verse)
On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,
Genesis 15:19 (show verse)
the land of 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.