| 15:1 | After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. |
| 15:2 | And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? |
| 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 the LORD came unto him, saying, This 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 tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
| 15:5 | 於是領他走到外邊、說、你向天觀看、數算眾星、能數得過來麼．又對他說、你的後裔將要如此。 |
| 15:5 | 于是领他走到外边，说，你向天观看，数算众星，能数得过来麽。又对他说，你的后裔将要如此。 |
| psm:147:4 | He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. |
| gen:26:4 | And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; |
| exo:32:13 | Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever. |
| rom:4:18 | Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. |
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| 15:6 | And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness. |
| 15:7 | And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. |
| 15:8 | And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? |
| 15:9 | And he said unto him, Take me an 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. |
| 15:10 | And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. |
| 15:11 | And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. |
| 15:12 | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| 15:13 | And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger 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 | And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |
| 15:16 | But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites 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 burning lamp that passed between those pieces. |
| 15:18 | In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: |
| 15:19 | The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, |
| 15:20 | And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, |
| 15:21 | And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. |
