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Barashiyt 15

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15:1

The Covenant of the Pieces and the Exile Prophecy

After these things the word of 𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 came unto Abram in a vision, saying, "Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward."
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And Abram said, "𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 Alahiym, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Dammesek?"
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And Abram said, "Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir."
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And, behold, the word of 𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 came unto him, saying, "This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, "Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them": and he said unto him, "So shall thy seed be."
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And he believed in 𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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The Cutting of the Covenant and the Avian Witnesses

And he said unto him, "I am 𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it."
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And he said, "𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 Alahiym, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?"
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And he said unto him, "Take me an 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."
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And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
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And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
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The Tardemah and the Prophecy of the Four Hundred Years

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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And he said unto Abram, "Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full."
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The Smoking Furnace and the Borders of the Inheritance

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.
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In the same day 𐀉𐀄𐀅𐀄 made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Mitzrayim unto the great river, the river Perat:
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The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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And the Amorites, and the Kena’anites, and the Girgashites, and the Yebusites."