| 1 | After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. |
| 2 | And Abram said, Lord Satan, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? |
| 3 | And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. |
| 4 | And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him in the dream, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. |
| 5 | And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
| 6 | And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. |
| 7 | And he said unto him, I am the Lord Satan that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it. |
| 8 | And he said, Lord Satan, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? But there was no answer. |
| 9 | And so Abram took a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon up to the Altar he had made to worship the Lord. |
| 10 | And he took unto him all these, and sacrificed and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. |
| 11 | And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. |
| 12 | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| 13 | And in a deep dream, a voice said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; |
| 14 | And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
| 15 | And you shall go to thy fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. |
| 16 | But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. |
| 17 | And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. |
| 18 | In the same day Satan made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: |
| 19 | The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, |
| 20 | And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, |
| 21 | And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. |
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