Genesis 15:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The fourth generation will return here since the Amorites’ wrongdoing won’t have reached its peak until then.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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 this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,

Genesis 48:21

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

Genesis 50:24

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely come to you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

1 Kings 21:26

He acted most abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.)

2 Kings 21:11

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

Psalm 105:43

So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.

Exodus 12:40

The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, because the Lord brought you out from there by strength of hand; no leavened bread shall be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

Daniel 8:23

At the end of their rule, when the transgressions have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance shall arise, skilled in intrigue.

Leviticus 18:24

“Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for by all these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

Deuteronomy 9:4

“When the Lord your God thrusts them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the Lord has brought me in to occupy this land’; it is rather because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has overtaken them at last.