Genesis 15:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ And Abram said, “Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And Abram continued, Look, You have given me no child; and [a servant] born in my house is my heir.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Common English Bible

³ He continued, “Since you haven’t given me any children, the head of my household will be my heir.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Abram added: "Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo, my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir.

Genesis 15:3 Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 14:14

When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:2

But Abram said, “O Lord God, what wilt thou give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 29:21

He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.

Proverbs 30:23

an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I complain to thee; yet I would plead my case before thee. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?