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Genesis 15:16-18
Contemporary English Version
Genesis 15:16-18
Contemporary English Version
16 Four generations later,[a] your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here[b] be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.
17 Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot[c] and a flaming fire passed between the two halves of each animal. 18 (A) At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him:
I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River[d] on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
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- 15.16 Four generations later: This may refer to the “400 years” of verses 13-15.
- 15.16 people who live here: The Hebrew text has “Amorites,” a name sometimes used of the people who lived in Palestine before the Israelites.
- 15.17 smoking cooking pot: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. The smoke and fire represent the presence of the Lord.
- 15.18 Shihor River: See Joshua 13.2-7.
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