Genesis 15 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

¹ After these things the word of the LORD came to Avram in a vision, saying, *Don't be afraid, Avram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.*

² Avram said, *Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eli`ezer of Damascus?*

³ Avram said, *Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.*

⁴ Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, *This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir.*

⁵ The LORD brought him outside, and said, *Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.* He said to Avram, *So shall your seed be.*

⁶ He believed in the LORD; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

⁷ He said to him, *I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Kasdim, to give you this land to inherit it.*

⁸ He said, *Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?*

⁹ He said to him, *Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.*

¹⁰ He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

¹¹ The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram drove them away.

¹² When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

¹³ He said to Avram, *Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

¹⁴ I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

¹⁵ but you will go to your fathers in shalom. You will be buried in a good old age.

¹⁶ In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amori is not yet full.*

¹⁷ It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

¹⁸ In that day the LORD made a covenant with Avram, saying, *To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Perat:

¹⁹ the Kinim, the Kenizzi, the Kadmoni,

²⁰ the Chitti, the Perizzi, the Refa'im,

²¹ the Amori, the Kena`anim, the Girgashi, and the Yevusi.*