OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Genesis 15:12

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When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

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Genesis 15:9–15

9

He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10

He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

11

The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

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When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

13

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14

I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;

15

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

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