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1 After these things the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] your shield, [and] your exceeding great reward.
2 And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing as I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
4 And, behold, the word of the LORD [Yahweh] [came] to him, saying, This will not be your heir; but he that will come forth out of your own bowels will be your heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So will your seed be.
 - COVENANT OF ABRAHAM
6 And he believed in the LORD [Yahweh]; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said to him, I [am] the LORD [Yahweh] that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.
8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby will I know that I will inherit it?
9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds he did not divide.
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun had going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13 And he said to Abram, Know for sure that your seed will be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and will serve them; and they will afflict them four hundred years;
14 And also that nation, whom they will serve, I will judge: and afterward they will come out with great substance.
15 And you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they will come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that when the sun went down, and it was dark, that a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces.
18 In the same day the LORD [Yahweh] cut a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.