Genesis 15 is the covenant chapter - the night God made an unconditional promise to Abram, sealed by a smoking furnace and blazing torch passing between the pieces of slaughtered animals. Abram steps outside, counts stars he cannot number, and believes. His faith is credited as righteousness - the verse Paul builds the
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After these things the LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision Saying Don’t be afraid, Abram I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward
Abram said Lord GOD, what will you give me Since I go childless And he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus? Abram said Behold you have given no children to me And behold one born in my house is my heir
Behold the LORD’s word came to him saying This man will not be your heir But he who will come out of your own body will be your heir The LORD brought him outside And said
Look now towards the sky And count the stars if you are able to count them He said to Abram So your offspring will be He believed in the LORD who credited it to him for righteousness
He said to Abram I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees To give you this land to inherit it He said Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it? 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
He brought him all these and divided them in the middle And laid each half opposite the other But he didn’t divide the birds The birds of prey came down on the carcasses And Abram drove them away
When the sun was going down A deep sleep fell on Abram Now terror and great darkness fell on him He said to Abram Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners In a land that is not theirs and will serve them They will afflict them four hundred years
I will also judge that nation whom they will serve Afterward they will come out with great wealth But you will go to your fathers in peace You will be buried at a good old age
It came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark Behold a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram saying I have given this land to your offspring From the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates
The land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim The Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites
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Genesis 15 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.