The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

Abram in a virion, raying Fear not Abram : I nm thy shield nnd th)exceeding great reward. 1)~nd brim said, Lord GOD, allat kilt thougive me, seeing I go childless. and the steward of my house is this Eliezerof Damarcus? j And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no~ e: d and. lo, on# born in nry house is mine heir. 4 And, behold,the word of the LORD came uuto him, saying This shall not bethine heir* but he that shall come forth out hf thine own bowelsshall be t h e heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said,Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou I= able to numberthem: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And hebelieved in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousncs.7 And he raid unto him, I nm the LORD that brought thcc out of Urof the Chaldecs to give thee tliis land to inherit it 8 And he saidLord GOD, whe;eby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he saidunto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of threeyears old, and a ram of threp years old. and a turtle dove, and a youngprgeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided then1 in themidst, and laid each piece one against i~nothrr; Inrt the birds divided henot. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abraaldrove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down. ;I deep sleepfell upon +ram ; and, lo, an horror of Ereat darkness fell upon Irim. 11And he aa~d unto Abram. Know of a surety that thy seed shall be astranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve the111 ; and they shallafflict them four hultdred years; 14 And also that nation, whom theyshall serve. will I judge : and afterward shall they come out with greatsubstance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy father:, in peace; thou shalt beburied in r god old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they sl~all come'hither again : for the iniquity of the Amorites IS not yet full. I? And 11came tosl~ats, that, wher~ the sun went down, and 11 was dark, beholda smoking furnace. and a burning lamp that passed between thosepieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abraln,raviog, Unto thy meed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt untothe great river, the river Euphrates. 19 The Kenites. and the Keoizzites,and the Kadmonites 20 And the Hittites ant1 the Yerrzzites and theKcphaims, zr And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and th; Girgashiter,and the Jebusites.Till Abraham's day, 427 years after the flood, and 2,081years after the fall of Adam, God's Holy Spirit, typifiedby Eliezet-, had been striving with men to convince themof their evil ways, and raise them out of theirdegradation.But as it was without beneficent effect, God said to Noali:'.My spirit shall not always strive with men" (Gen. 6: 3).God's law, though largely effaced by the fall, was stillwritten in man's nature, arrd it was to this that God