Gênesis 15

God’s Covenant with Abram

1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram *Gen. 15:4; 46:2; 1 Sam. 15:10; Dan. 10:1in a vision, saying, *Gen. 21:17; 26:24; Is. 41:10; Dan. 10:12"Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your *Deut. 33:29; Ps. 3:3; 84:11; 91:4shield, your exceedingly *Num. 18:20; Ps. 58:11; Prov. 11:18great reward."

2 *Gen. 17:18But Abram said, "Lord God, what will You give me, *Acts 7:5seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed *Gen. 14:14one born in my house is my heir!"

4 And behold, the word of the Lordcame to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who *2 Sam. 7:12; Gal. 4:28will come from your own body shall be your heir." 5 Then He brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and *Gen. 22:17; 26:4; Deut. 1:10; Ps. 147:4count the *Jer. 33:22stars if you are able to number them." And He said to him, *Ex. 32:13; Rom. 4:18; Heb. 11:12"So shall your *Gen. 17:19descendants be."

6 And he *Gen. 21:1; Rom. 4:3, 9, 22; Gal. 3:6; James 2:23believed in the Lord, and He *Ps. 32:2; 106:31accounted it to him for righteousness.

7 Then He said to him, "I am the Lord, who *Gen. 12:1brought you out of *Gen. 11:28, 31Ur of the Chaldeans, *Gen. 13:15, 17; Ps. 105:42, 44to give you this land to inherit it."

8 And he said, "Lord God, *Gen. 24:13, 14; Judg. 6:36–40; 1 Sam. 14:9, 10; Luke 1:18how shall I know that I will inherit it?"

9 So He said to him, "Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10 Then he brought all these to Him and *Gen. 15:17; Jer. 34:18cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut *Lev. 1:17the birds in two. 11 And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

12 Now when the sun was going down, *Gen. 2:21; 28:11; Job 33:15a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly *Ex. 1:11; Acts 7:6that your descendants will be strangers in a land thatis not theirs, and will serve them, and *Ex. 12:40they will afflict them four hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve *Ex. 6:6I will judge; afterward *Ex. 12:36they shall come out with great possessions. 15 Now as for you, *Job 5:26you shall go *Gen. 25:8; 47:30to your fathers in peace; *Gen. 25:8you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But *Gen. 15:13; Ex. 12:41in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity *Gen. 48:22; Lev. 18:24–28; 1 Kin. 21:26of the Amorites *1 Kin. 11:12; Matt. 23:32is not yet complete."

17 And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that *Jer. 34:18, 19passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the Lord*Gen. 24:7made a covenant with Abram, saying:

*Gen. 12:7; 17:8; Ex. 23:31; Num. 34:3; Deut. 11:24; Josh. 1:4; 21:43; Acts 7:5"To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."