Verse 8
Genesis 15:8
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
8
But he said: Lord God (Elohim), whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר אֲדֹנָ֣/י יֱהוִ֔ה בַּ/מָּ֥ה אֵדַ֖ע כִּ֥י אִֽירָשֶֽׁ/נָּה
English Translation
And the Lord said, "By what shall I know that I will inherit it?"
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Chapter 15 Context
1
Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, A...
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And Abram said: Lord God (Elohim), what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son...
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And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be m...
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And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shal...
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And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou ca...
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Abram believed God (Elohim), and it was reputed to him unto justice.
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And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this la...
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But he said: Lord God (Elohim), whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
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And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, an...
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And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against th...
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And the fowls came down upon carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized u...
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And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their...
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But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great su...
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15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
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But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites a...
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And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp o...
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That day God (Elohim) made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from th...
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The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
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And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
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And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanits, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
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