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    "language": "en",
    "book": "genesis",
    "chapter": 15
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 15,
    "bookSlug": "genesis",
    "bookCode": "GEN",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "The covenant of the pieces: descendants as the stars + the four-hundred-year sojourn foretold",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-15:1",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.1",
        "text": "After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-15:2",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.2",
        "text": "And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-15:3",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.3",
        "text": "And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-15:4",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.4",
        "text": "And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-15:5",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.5",
        "text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-15:6",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.6",
        "text": "And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-15:7",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.7",
        "text": "And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-15:8",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.8",
        "text": "And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-15:9",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.9",
        "text": "And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-15:10",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.10",
        "text": "And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-15:11",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.11",
        "text": "And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-15:12",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.12",
        "text": "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-15:13",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.13",
        "text": "And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-15:14",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.14",
        "text": "and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-15:15",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.15",
        "text": "But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-15:16",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.16",
        "text": "And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-15:17",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.17",
        "text": "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-15:18",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.18",
        "text": "In that day Jehovah 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:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-15:19",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.19",
        "text": "the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-15:20",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.20",
        "text": "and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-15:21",
        "verseRef": "Gen.15.21",
        "text": "and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite."
      }
    ]
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