And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee thy reward shall be very great. ² And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir. ³ And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me. ⁴ And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir. ⁵ And be brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, ¹Thus shall thy seed be. ⁶²And Abram believed God, and it was

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counted to him for righteousness. ⁷ And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit. ⁸ And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? ⁹ And he said to him, Take for me a heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon. ¹⁰ So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide. ¹¹ And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram ³ sat down by them. ¹² And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror fell upon him. ¹³ And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And the nation whomsoever they serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much ⁴property. ¹⁵ But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age. ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now. ¹⁷ And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces. ¹⁸ In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates. ¹⁹ The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans, ²⁰ and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim, ²¹ and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.