Genesis 15:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity 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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 10:16

and the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites,

Genesis 15:13

Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and return you again to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:24

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die. God will surely come to you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

1 Kings 21:26

He performed the most abominable act in following idols like the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, things more evil than all that the Amorites did, and has also caused Judah to sin with his idols,

Psalm 105:43

He led His people out with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.

Exodus 12:40

Now the sojourning of the Israelites who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Exodus 13:3

Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place. Nothing leavened shall be eaten.

Exodus 13:4

On this day, you are going out, in the month of Aviv.

Daniel 8:23

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king will arise, having a fierce countenance, skilled in intrigue.

Leviticus 18:24

Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in these practices the nations I am casting out before you have defiled themselves.

Deuteronomy 9:4

Do not say in your heart, after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “On account of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,” but it is because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord is driving them out before you.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved. In this way they are always piling up their sins, but wrath has come upon them to the extreme.