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A.Count the Stars, If You Canvv. 1-6
1 After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” 2 But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.” 4 Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.” 5 And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
B.The Animals Cut in Twovv. 7-11
7 The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” 8 But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?” 9 And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.” 10 So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half. 11 And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
C.A Smoking Furnace and Flaming Torchvv. 12-21
12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him. 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years. 14 But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions. 15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” 17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates— 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
Chapter summary
The covenant cut.
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Chapter summary
The covenant cut.
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The covenant cut. Abram questions his childlessness; the LORD takes him out under the stars and promises a seed as countless. ‘He believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness’. Paul's proof-text in Romans 4. The covenant is then sealed with a sacrifice: animals divided, a deep sleep falling on Abram, a smoking furnace and burning lamp passing between the pieces. The land is specified from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates, after four hundred years in affliction. The covenant is unilateral. God alone passes through. Calvin: the smoking furnace and burning lamp are God himself, pledging his own life.
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Law · Moses — Genesis overview
- A. 1–6 Count the Stars, If You Can
- B. 7–11 The Animals Cut in Two
- C. 12–21 A Smoking Furnace and Flaming Torch
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Exodus 122 verses
- Exodus 12:32Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
- Exodus 12:40Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
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Genesis 252 verses
- Genesis 25:7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
- Genesis 25:21Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
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Romans 42 verses
- Romans 4:9Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
- Romans 4:18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
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Genesis 122 verses
- Genesis 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
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Acts 72 verses
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Nehemiah 92 verses
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Leviticus 142 verses
- Leviticus 14:22and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
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