Genesis 15:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Genesis 14:14

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:2

And Abram said, O Lord GOD what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Dammesek Eliezer?

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: But when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Proverbs 29:21

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman when she is married; And an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought menservants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?