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¹ It happened after these actes, yt the worde of ye LORDE came vnto Abra in a vysion, and sayde: Feare not Abram, I am thy shylde and thy exceadinge greate rewarde.

² But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, what wilt thou geue me? I go childles, and the seruaunt of my house (this Eleasar of Damascos) hath a sonne.³ And Abram sayde morouer: Beholde, vnto me hast thou geuen no sede: and lo, the sonne of my housholde shal be myne heyre.⁴ And beholde, the worde of the LORDE spake vnto him, and saide: He shal not be thine heyre, but one that shal come out of thine owne body, he shal be thine heyre.⁵ And he bad him go forth, and sayde: Loke vp vnto heauen, and tell ye starres: Canst thou nombre them? And he sayde vnto him: Euen so shal thy sede be.⁶ Abram beleued the LORDE, and yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes.

⁷ And he sayde vnto him: I am ye LORDE, yt brought the from Vr out of Chaldea, to geue ye this londe to possesse it.⁸ But Abram sayde: LORDE LORDE, Wherby shall I knowe, that I shall possesse it?⁹ And he sayde vnto him: Take a cow of thre yeare olde, and a she goate of thre yeare olde, and a ramme of thre yeare olde, and a turtyll doue, and a yonge pigeon.¹⁰ And he toke all these, and deuyded them in the myddes, and layde the one parte ouer agaynst the other, but the foules deuyded he not.¹¹ And the foules fell vpo the flesh, but Abram droue them awaye.

¹² Now whan the Sonne beganne to go downe, there fell an heuy slepe vpo Abram. And lo, feare and greate darcknes fell vpon him.¹³ And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertye, that thy sede shalbe a strauger, in a londe that is not theirs. And they shall make bonde men of them, and intreate them euell foure hundreth yeares.¹⁴ But the people who they shal serue, wyl I iudge. Afterwarde shall they go forth with greate substaunce:¹⁵ and thou shalt departe vnto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good age.¹⁶ And after the fourth generacion they shall come hither agayne, for the wickednes of ye Amorites is not yet full.

¹⁷ So whan the Sonne was downe, and it was waxed darcke: Beholde, there smoked a fornace, and a fyre brande wente betwene ye partes.¹⁸ The same daye made the LORDE a couenaut with Abram, and sayde: Vnto thy sede wil I geue this lode, from the water of Egipte, vnto the greate water Euphrates:¹⁹ the Kenytes, the Kenizites, the Kydmonites,²⁰ the Hethites, the Pherezites, the Giauntes,²¹ the Amorites, the Cananites, the Gergesites, and the Iebusites.