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1 After these things the word of the LORD Yehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.” 2 And Abram said, “O Lord GOD Adonai Yehovah, what will Yhou give me, seeing I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Behold, You have given me no seed, and lo, one born in my house is to be my heir.” 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “This man shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own body shall be your heir.” 5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to count them;” and He said to him, “So shall your seed be.” 6 And he believed in the LORD; and He accounted it to him for righteousness. 7 And He said to him, “I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.” 8 And he said, “O Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?” 9 And He said to him, “Bring Me a heifer of three years old, and a female goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 And he brought Him all these, and divided them down the middle, and laid each half over against the other; but the birds he divided not. 11 And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And it came to pass that, when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, lo, a dread, even a great darkness, fell on him. 13 And He said to Abram, “Know for a certainty that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge; and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 But you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come back here; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.” 17 And it came to pass that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18 In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates; 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”’ {s}
Chiastic structures
Studies
Gen 15:1-21, Belief reckoned as righteousness
Gen 15 and the cutting of the covenant
Gen 15:1-21, Triennial B’mecheza, “In a vision to say”
Off site studies
Covenant – Jewish Encyclopaedia
Israelite Covenants in the Light of Ancient Near Eastern Covenants
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The Biblical text is from the 1917 Jewish Publication Society edition posted by Mechon Mamre online. I have modernized words, spelling, and grammar, and aligned the verse and chapter numbers to the KJV. The linked studies, chiastic structures, and Scripture pictures are my own and are copyright © Christine Miller. All rights reserved.
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