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Genesis 14.

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Chapter 15

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After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a 1vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great 2reward.
1 Gen 46:2
2 Psa 58:11, Psa 84:11, Heb 11:6

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And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the 1steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
1 Gen 24:2

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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 the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall 1come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
1 Gen 17:16

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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, 1So shall thy seed be.
1 Rom 4:18

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1And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
1 Rom 4:3, Gal 3:6, James 2:23

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And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of 1Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
1 Acts 7:2

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And he said, LORD God, 1whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
1 Jud 6:36, 1st Sam 14:9, 2nd Kings 20:8, Luke 1:18

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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 carcasses, Abram drove them away.

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And when the sun was going down, a 1deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
1 Gen 2:21

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And he said unto Abram, 1Know 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;
1 Acts 7:6

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1And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
1 Acts 7:7

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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 1they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet 2full.
1 Acts 7:7
2 Matt 23:32, 1st Thess 2:16

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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 1given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
1 Num 34:2, Deut 1:8, 2nd Chron 9:26, Neh 9:8

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The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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