...animals, in token of ratifying every stipulation belonging to the promise in question. " For in that same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying 'Unto thy seed have I given this land,'" &c. verses 8 — 21. Here is an end of all transactions for establishing the first promise. It was...

...disclosed, and when the time for which Abram had so anxiously been looking arrived, tho stars were obscured, it was dark ; behold, a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between the pieces. The Divine Majesty appeared in great splendour, to indicate the ratification of the promise....

...generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, unto thy si:rd hare I gipen this land, frum the rivcr of Egypt unto Ihe preal rivi-r, the rivir Euphrates ;...

...divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another; but the birds divided he not. And it came to pass that, when the sun went down, and...a burning lamp that passed between those pieces." Then the Lord solemnly giants, in passing between the parts of the sacrifice, to Abraham and his seed,...

...longer withheld. The following is the remarkable description given by the pen of inspiration : " And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and...dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces " of the creatures which Abram, at God's command, had killed and divided....

...my mistress Sarai. shall come hither again for the iniquity of the Amorites i* not yet full. 17 Ana drive i/iern away : as wax melti-th before the fire, -to let t be9 And the angel of the LORD paid unto her, Return to thy mistress, and snlimit thyself under her...

...sky and only those who look up can see it. The next covenant that our God made was with Abraham: "And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and...the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram..." (Gen. 15:17-18a). Strong's Concordance has a meaning of covenant as "the dividing of meat, or from...

...Genesis 15. I say "given" rather than "promised," because that is explicidy the verb used there: "In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'Unto thy seed have I given this land." According to the Midrash, the cause of the strife between the shepherds of Lot and those of Abraham...

...recalls the miraculous fire in Abraham's earlier vision of God when the Covenant was first renewed ("And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold ... a burning lamp [lapid es, "a torch of fire"] passed between those pieces" (Genesis 15:17). The "fire-from-dawn,"...

...and was prominent in the economy and history of Israel. Back as early as Genesis 15:18, God promised "Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates." This indicates the favor of God towards Abram and his descendants...