Genesis 15

1After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”Cross-references: Gen 15:14 · Gen 21:17 · Gen 26:24 · Gen 46:2 · Ex 14:13 · Num 12:6 · +44 more

2Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 25:21 · Gen 30:1 · Gen 39:4 · +9 more

3Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 14:14 · Prov 13:12 · Prov 29:21 · Prov 30:23 · +3 more

4Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”Cross-references: Gen 17:16 · Gen 21:12 · 2Sam 7:12 · 2Sam 16:11 · 2Chr 32:21 · Gal 4:28 · +1 more

5Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 16:10 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 26:4 · Gen 28:14 · +9 more

6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.Cross-references: Ps 106:31 · Rom 4:3 · Rom 4:9 · Rom 4:11 · Rom 4:20 · 2Cor 5:19 · +3 more

7He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”Cross-references: Gen 11:28 · Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Neh 9:7 · Ps 105:11 · +4 more

8He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”Cross-references: Gen 24:2 · Gen 24:13 · Judg 6:17 · Judg 6:36 · 1Sam 14:9 · 2Ki 20:8 · +4 more

9He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”Cross-references: Gen 22:13 · Lev 1:3 · Lev 1:10 · Lev 1:14 · Lev 3:1 · Lev 3:6 · +8 more

10He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.Cross-references: Gen 15:17 · Lev 1:17 · Jer 34:18 · 2Tim 2:15

11The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.Cross-references: Ps 119:13 · Ezek 17:3 · Ezek 17:7 · Matt 13:4

12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.Cross-references: Gen 2:21 · 1Sam 26:12 · Job 4:13 · Job 33:15 · Ps 4:3 · Dan 10:8 · +2 more

13He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.Cross-references: Gen 17:8 · Ex 1:1 · Ex 1:11 · Ex 5:1 · Ex 12:40 · Ex 22:21 · +9 more

14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;Cross-references: Gen 46:1 · Ex 3:21 · Ex 6:5 · Ex 7:1 · Ex 12:32 · Deut 4:20 · +12 more

15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.Cross-references: Gen 23:4 · Gen 23:19 · Gen 25:7 · Gen 35:29 · Gen 49:29 · Gen 49:31 · +19 more

16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”Cross-references: Ex 12:40 · 1Ki 21:26 · Dan 8:23 · Zech 5:5 · Matt 23:32 · 1Thess 2:16 · +1 more

17It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.Cross-references: Ex 3:2 · Deut 4:20 · Judg 6:21 · Judg 13:20 · 2Sam 22:9 · 1Chr 21:26 · +3 more

18In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:Cross-references: Gen 2:14 · Gen 9:8 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 24:7 · +34 more

19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,Cross-references: Num 24:21

20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,Cross-references: Gen 14:5 · Isa 17:5

21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Ex 23:23 · Ex 33:2 · Ex 34:11 · Deut 7:1 · Matt 8:28