Verse 5
Genesis 15:5
Darby Translation
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And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יּוֹצֵ֨א אֹת֜/וֹ הַ/ח֗וּצָ/ה וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ הַבֶּט נָ֣א הַ/שָּׁמַ֗יְמָ/ה וּ/סְפֹר֙ הַ/כּ֣וֹכָבִ֔ים אִם תּוּכַ֖ל לִ/סְפֹּ֣ר אֹתָ֑/ם וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔/וֹ כֹּ֥ה יִהְיֶ֖ה זַרְעֶֽ/ךָ
English Translation
And he brought him outside and said, "Look now towards heaven and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your descendants be."
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Chapter 15 Context
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After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy...
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And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my h...
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And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.
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And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that wil...
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5
And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to...
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And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.
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And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land...
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And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?
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9
And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ra...
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10
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow;...
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And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.
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And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great dark...
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And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not their...
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But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with gr...
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15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not...
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And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking fu...
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On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the...
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the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
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and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
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