227Or, thy reward is to be exceeding great.
15: 2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I 228go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
228Or, go hence,
15: 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
15: 4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
15: 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
15: 6 And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
15: 7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
15: 8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15: 9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
15: 10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.
15: 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
15: 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
15: 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
15: 14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge; and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
15: 15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
15: 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
15: 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
15: 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from 229the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
229Contrasted with the great river (Euphrates), the river of Egypt would be the Wadi el Arish, not the Nile.
15: 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15: 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15: 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
