Bible Language Cross References for the verse Genesis 49:29 in NET
- 1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance."
- 2 But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?"
- 3 Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"
- 4 But look, the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir."
- 5 The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars� if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."
- 6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.
- 7 The LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
- 8 But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?"
- 9 The LORD said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
- 10 So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.
- 11 When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
- 12 When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.
- 13 Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
- 14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.
- 15 But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
- 16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit."
- 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.
- 18 That day the LORD made a covenant with Abram: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River�
- 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
- 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
- 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."