Bible Verses About Abraham

He answered him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove and a young pigeon."

He brought him all these, cut the animals in two and placed the pieces opposite each other; but he didn't cut the birds in half.

Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Avram drove them away.

As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell on Avram; horror and great darkness came over him.

ADONAI said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.

But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.

As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Only in the fourth generation will your descendants come back here, because only then will the Emori be ripe for punishment."

After the sun had set and there was thick darkness, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared, which passed between these animal parts.

That day ADONAI made a covenant with Avram: "I have given this land to your descendants - from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River -

the territory of the Keni, the K'nizi, the Kadmoni,

the Hitti, the P'rizi, the Refa'im,

the Emori, the Kena'ani, the Girgashi and the Y'vusi."

It was after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kena'an that Sarai Avram's wife took Hagar the Egyptian, her slave-girl, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

Hagar bore Avram a son, and Avram called the son whom Hagar had borne Yishma'el.

Avram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Yishma'el to Avram.

When Avram was 99 years old ADONAI appeared to Avram and said to him, "I am El Shaddai [God Almighty]. Walk in my presence and be pure-hearted.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and I will increase your numbers greatly."

Avram fell on his face, and God continued speaking with him:

"As for me, this is my covenant with you: you will be the father of many nations.

Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Avraham [father of many], because I have made you the father of many nations.

I will cause you to be very fruitful. I will make nations of you, kings will descend from you.

"I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you.

I will give you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now foreigners, all the land of Kena'an, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God."

God said to Avraham, "As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.