Genesis 15:3 - The Scriptures 2009

³ And Aḇram said, “See, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my 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 shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing!

Genesis 13:16

“And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted.

Genesis 14:14

And when Aḇram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:2

And Aḇram said, “Master יהוה, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eli‛ezer of Dammeseq?”

Proverbs 13:12

Expectancy drawn out makes the heart sick, But a longing come true is a tree of life.

Proverbs 29:21

He who deals tenderly With his servant from youth, Has him as a son in the end.

Proverbs 30:23

Under a hated woman who marries, And a female servant who supplants her mistress.

Ecclesiastes 2:7

I bought male and female servants, and I came to have sons of the household. Also, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were before me in Yerushalayim.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?