Genesis 15

Question 1

Genesis 15:1

Answer 1

After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. “

Question 2

Genesis 15:2

Answer 2

But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”

Question 3

Genesis 15:3

Answer 3

And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”

Question 4

Genesis 15:4

Answer 4

Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.”

Question 5

Genesis 15:5

Answer 5

He took him outside and said, “Look up at the heavens and count the stars - if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Question 6

Genesis 15:6

Answer 6

Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Question 7

Genesis 15:7

Answer 7

He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”

Question 8

Genesis 15:8

Answer 8

But Abram said, “O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”

Question 9

Genesis 15:9

Answer 9

So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

Question 10

Genesis 15:10

Answer 10

Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Question 11

Genesis 15:11

Answer 11

Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Question 12

Genesis 15:12

Answer 12

As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

Question 13

Genesis 15:13

Answer 13

Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Question 14

Genesis 15:14

Answer 14

But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Question 15

Genesis 15:15

Answer 15

You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Question 16

Genesis 15:16

Answer 16

In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”

Question 17

Genesis 15:17

Answer 17

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

Question 18

Genesis 15:18

Answer 18

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates -

Question 19

Genesis 15:19

Answer 19

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

Question 20

Genesis 15:20

Answer 20

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

Question 21

Genesis 15:21

Answer 21

Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”