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16 in my house, he Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold tlie son of my house shall inherit me.

And behold, the word of Jehovah was to him, saying. This shall not inherit tliee, for truly he who shall come forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee.

And he will bring him forth without, and will say. Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him. So shall be thy seed.

And he believed in Jehovah; and it shall be reckoned to him justice.

And he will say to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee from Ur of the Chaldees to give thee this land to inherit it.

And he will say, My Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

And he will say to him, Take to me a heifer of three, and a goat of three, and a ram of three, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.

And he will take to him all these, and he will divide them, asund r in the midst, and will put each of its parts divided, opposite its companion: and the birds he divided not.

And the birds will come down upon the dead carcases, and Abram will drive them together.

And the sun shall be going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him.

And he will say to Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in the land not to them; and they shall serve them and they shall humble them four hundred years.

And also the nation whom they shall serve, I will judge, and after this they shall come forth with great substance.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in tranquillity; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

And the fourth generation they shall turn back hither; for the crime of the Amorite has not been completed till uow.

And the sun shall be going down, and it was thick darkness, and behold a furnace of smoke and a lamp of fire that passed over between these pieces.

In that day Jehovah cut out a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed gave I this land from the river of Egypt, to the great river, the river Euphrates:

The Kenites and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites;

The Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims;

And the Amorites and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

ND Sarai, Abram's wife, brought not forth to him; and to her a maid servant, an Egyptian, and her name Hagar.

And Sarai will say to Abram, Behold now, Jehovah restrained me from bringing forth; go now to my maid servant; perhaps I shall have children from her. And Abram will listen to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai, Abram's wife, will take Ilagar the Egyptian, her maid servant, at the end of ten years of Abram's resting in the land of Canaan, and will give her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife.

And Abram will go in to Ilagar, and she will conceive, and she will see that she conceived; and her mistress will be despised in her eyes.

And Sarai will say to Abram, My wrong upon thee: I gave my maid servant into thy bosom, and she will see that she conceived, and I shall be despised in her eyes. Jehovah will judge between me and between thee.

And Abram will say to Sarai, Behold thy maid servant in thy hand; do to her the good in thine eyes. And Sarai shall afflict her, and she will flee from her face.

And the messenger of Jehovah shall find her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And he will say, Hagar, Sarai's maid servant, how camest thou here? and whither wilt thou go? And she