Genesis 15:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And in the fourth generation they [your descendants] shall come back here [to Canaan] again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full and complete. [Josh. 24:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

Common English Bible

The fourth generation will return here since the Amorites’ wrongdoing won’t have reached its peak until then.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full, until this present time.

Genesis 15:16 Cross References

Genesis 10:16

and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:24

And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die; but God will visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

1 Kings 21:26

He did very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;

Psalm 105:43

So he led forth his people with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

Exodus 12:40

The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Exodus 13:3

And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place; no leavened bread shall be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

This day you are to go forth, in the month of Abib.

Daniel 8:23

And at the latter end of their rule, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance, one who understands riddles, shall arise.

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am casting out before you defiled themselves;

Deuteronomy 9:4

“Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to possess this land’; whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land; but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!