Genesis 15:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ “Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness 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."

Genesis 15:16 Cross References

Genesis 10:16

and the Yeḇ

Genesis 15:13

And He said to Aḇ

Genesis 48:21

And Yisra’ĕ

Genesis 50:24

And Yosĕ

1 Kings 21:26

And he acted very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom יהוה  dispossessed from before the children of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Menashsheh sovereign of Yehuḏ

Psalm 105:43

So He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with singing.

Exodus 12:40

And the sojourn of the children of Yisra’ĕ

Exodus 13:3

And Mosheh said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery. For by strength of hand יהוה  brought you out of this place, and whatever is leavened shall not be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

“Today you are going out, in the month Aḇ

Daniel 8:23

“And in the latter time of their rule, when the transgressors have filled up their measure, a sovereign, fierce of face and skilled at intrigues, shall stand up.

Leviticus 18:24

‘Do not defile yourselves with all these, for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am driving out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:4

“Do not think in your heart, after יהוה  your Elohim has driven them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness יהוה  has brought me in to possess this land.’ But it is because of the wrong of these nations that יהוה  is driving them out from before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

“It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wrong of these nations that יהוה  your Elohim drives them out from before you, in order to establish the word which יהוה  swore to your fathers, to Aḇ

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the gentiles that they might be saved, so as to fill up their sins always. But the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.