God’s Covenant with Abram
Romans 4:1–12; Hebrews 11:8–19
1After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.+ 2And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.+ 3And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.+ 4Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.+ 5And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.+ 6And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.+ 7And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.+God Confirms His Promise
Numbers 34:1–15; Romans 4:13–25
8And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?+ 9And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.+ 10All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.+ 11And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.+ 12Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.+ 13And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;+ 14But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.+ 15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.+ 16And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.+ 17Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.+ 18In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:+ 19The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,+ 20And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,+ 21And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.+