--Genesis-- Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: (12:1) And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. (12:7) And he said unto him, I [am] the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. (15:7) And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? (15:8) And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. (15:9) And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. (15:10) And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. (15:11) And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. (15:12) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; (15:13) And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. (15:14) And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. (15:15) But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full. (15:16) And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. (15:17) In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: (15:18) The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, (15:19) And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, (15:20) And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (15:21) --Ezekiel-- Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we [are] many; the land is given us for inheritance. (33:24) |