- 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 God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
- 3
- And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
- 4
- And, behold, the word of the LORD 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.
- 5
- 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 the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
- 7
- And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
- 8
- And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
- 9
- 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.
- 10
- 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.
- 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 he 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 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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- 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 the LORD 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:
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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 Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Kapcsolódó igehirdetések: Be Ki
Kalauz
November 23
Kétéves:
- I. év: 1Kir 7:1-26
- II. év: Jón 1
- 1Pét 1:13-2:10
- Zsolt 119:33-48
- Péld 28:11
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