{
  "chapterNum": 15,
  "verses": [
    {
      "verseNum": 1,
      "text": "After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision:\n    \n  “Do not be afraid, Abram.\n    I am your shield,\n    your very great reward.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 2,
      "text": "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?”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 3,
      "text": "Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 4,
      "text": "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.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 5,
      "text": "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.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 6,
      "text": "Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 7,
      "text": "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.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 8,
      "text": "But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 9,
      "text": "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.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 10,
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 11,
      "text": "And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 12,
      "text": "As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 13,
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 14,
      "text": "But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 15,
      "text": "You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 16,
      "text": "In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 17,
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 18,
      "text": "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—"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 19,
      "text": "the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 20,
      "text": "Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,"
    },
    {
      "verseNum": 21,
      "text": "Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”"
    }
  ]
}