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| The Book of Genesis 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) | ||||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:1 | Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:2 | And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:3 | And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:4 | And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:5 | And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:6 | Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:7 | And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:8 | But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:9 | And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:10 | And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:11 | And the fowls came down upon carcasses, and Abram drove them away. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:12 | And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:13 | And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:14 | But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:15 | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:16 | But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:17 | And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:18 | That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates. | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:19 | The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites, | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:20 | And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also, | |||||||||||||||
| Genesis 15:21 | And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanits, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites. | |||||||||||||||
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