Genesis 15:3 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 15:3

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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ASV

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

WEB

Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

YLT

And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

DBT

And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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11 verses on the floor

Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Genesis 17:13
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

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Note, Though we must never complain of God, yet we have leave to complain to him, and to be large and particular in the statement of our grievances; and it is some ease to a burdened spirit to open its case to a faithful and compassionate friend: such a friend God is, whose ear is always open.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Note, Till we have some comfortable evidence of our interest in Christ and the new covenant, we should not rest satisfied with any thing else. "This, and the other, I have; but what will all this avail me, if I go Christless?" Yet thus far the complaint was culpable, that there was some diffidence of the promise at the bottom of it, and a weariness of waiting God's time.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

), God answered him graciously. Note, If we continue instant in prayer, and yet pray with a humble submission to the divine will, we shall not seek in vain. God gave him an express promise of a son,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But this man could have become his son only by adoption; and how sadly would that have come short of the parental hopes he had been encouraged to entertain! His language betrayed a latent spirit of fretfulness or perhaps a temporary failure in the very virtue for which he is so renowned--and absolute submission to God's time, as well as way, of accomplishing His promise.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Behold to me thou hast given no seed - Not only no son, but no seed. If he had had a daughter, from her the promised Messias might have come, who was to be the Seed of the Woman; but he had neither son nor daughter.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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