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Genesis · read by Michael Horton
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Genesis 15
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After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Abram continued, "Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, "This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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And the LORD took him outside and said, "Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able." Then He told him, "So shall your offspring be."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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The LORD also told him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?"Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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And the LORD said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.Read from ESV · Gospel Driven Life - 2: The Promise-Driven Life