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    "content": "Genesis, Chapter 15 — 21 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Genesis 15 (Douay-Rheims)",
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    {
      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 19,
      "text": "The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.",
      "citation": "Genesis 15:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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