Genesis 15:5-11
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5 He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”(A) 6 And he believed the Lord, and the Lord[a] reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7 Then he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.”(B) 8 But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”(C) 9 He 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.” 10 He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other, but he did not cut the birds in two.(D) 11 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
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Genesis 15:17-21
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17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.(A) 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates,(B) 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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