>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/15?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#0650f::c0650f) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/genesis/15.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Genesis/15.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/gen/15/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>In a vision, God spoke to Abram, who was in the land of Canaan, promising him descendants and land, and reaffirming His covenant with him. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>God promised Abram that he would have many children, as many as the stars in the sky, and gave him land for his family. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>God appeared to Abram in a vision and assured him that he would have a son of his own, despite being childless at the time. God promised that Abram's descendants would be as numerous as the stars and would inherit a vast land. Abram believed God's promise, and a covenant was made, symbolized by a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passing between divided animal pieces. > >#Gospel/Faith #Gospel/Covenant #Gospel/Promises ###### 1 1 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. ###### 2 2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? ###### 3 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. ###### 4 4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. ###### 5 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. ###### 6 6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness. ###### 7 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. ###### 8 8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? ###### 9 9 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. ###### 10 10 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. ###### 11 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. ###### 12 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. ###### 13 13 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; ###### 14 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. ###### 15 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ###### 16 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. ###### 17 17 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. ###### 18 18 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: ###### 19 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, ###### 20 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, ###### 21 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.