Genesis 15 (NET)

Genesis 15:1¹After these things the Lord ’s message came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:2²But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:3³Abram added, “Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:4⁴But look, the Lord ’s message came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:5⁵The Lord took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars—if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:6⁶Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord credited it as righteousness to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:7⁷The Lord said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:8⁸But Abram said, “O Sovereign Lord, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:9⁹The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:10¹⁰So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:11¹¹When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:12¹²When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:13¹³Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:14¹⁴But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:15¹⁵But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:16¹⁶In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:17¹⁷When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:18¹⁸That day the Lord made a covenant with Abram: “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:19¹⁹the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:20²⁰Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 15:21²¹Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s