Genesis 15:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ After four generations your people will come to this land again. At that time, your people will defeat the Amorite people. I will use your people to punish the Amorites living here. This will be in the future, because the Amorite people are not yet evil enough to punish.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full, until this present time.

Genesis 15:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 10:16

And Canaan was the father of the Jebusite people, the Amorite people, the Girgashite people,

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You should know these things: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. And the people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, my time to die is almost here. But God will still be with you. He will lead you back to the land of your ancestors [256] .

Genesis 50:24

When Joseph was near death, he said to his brothers, “My time to die is almost here. But I know that God will take care of you and lead you out of this country. God will lead you to the land he promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

1 Kings 21:26

Ahab did a very bad sin and worshiped those blocks of wood (idols). This was the same thing that the Amorite people did. And the Lord took the land from them and gave it to the people of Israel.

2 Kings 21:11

“Manasseh king of Judah has done these hated things and has done more evil than the Amorites before him. Manasseh also has caused Judah to sin because of his idols. [260]

Psalm 105:43

God brought his people out from Egypt.\par The people came out rejoicing\par and singing their happy songs!\par

Exodus 12:40

The people of Israel had lived in Egypt [75] for 430 years.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day. You were slaves in Egypt. But on this day the Lord used his great power and made you free. You must not eat bread with yeast.

Exodus 13:4

Today, in the month of Abib, [80] you are leaving {Egypt}.

Daniel 8:23

“When the end is near for those kingdoms, there will be a very bold and cruel king. This king will be very tricky. This will happen when there have become many, many sinful people.

Leviticus 18:24

“Don’t make yourself unclean [331] with any of those wrong things! I am throwing nations out of their countries and giving their land to you! Why? Because those people did those terrible sins!

Deuteronomy 9:4

“The Lord your God will force those nations out for you. But don’t say to yourselves, ‘The Lord brought us to live in this land because we are such good people!’ {That is not the reason!} The Lord forced those nations out because they were evil—{not because you were good}.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are going in to take their land, but not because you are good and live right. You are going in, and the Lord your God is forcing those people out because of the evil way they lived. And the Lord wants to keep the promise he made to your ancestors [57] —Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

Yes. They try to stop us from teaching the non-Jews. We teach the non-Jews so that the non-Jews can be saved. But those Jews are adding more and more sins to the sins they already have. The anger of God has fully come to them now.