Genesis 15:6-16:5

English Standard Version

⁶ And ^(A)he believed the Lord, and ^(B)he counted it to him as righteousness.

⁷ And he said to him, “I am the Lord who ^(C)brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ^(D)to give you this land to possess.” ⁸ But he said, “O Lord God, ^(E)how am I to know that I shall possess it?” 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 And he brought him all these, ^(F)cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But ^(G)he did not cut the birds in half. ¹¹ And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

¹² As the sun was going down, a ^(H)deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain ^(I)that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and ^(J)they will be afflicted for ^(K)four hundred years. ¹⁴ But ^(L)I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward ^(M)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; ^(N)you shall be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for ^(O)the iniquity of the Amorites ^(P)is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ^(Q)“To your offspring I give^[a] this land, from ^(R)the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 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.”

Sarai and Hagar

16 ^(S)Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was ^(T)Hagar. ² And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children^[b] by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. ³ So, after Abram ^(U)had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. ⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, ^(V)she looked with contempt on her mistress.^{[c] 5} And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May ^(W)the Lord judge between you and me!”