Saturday in Season after Pentecost

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

1Verse 1. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2Verse 2. Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop. 3Verse 3. No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain — not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.” 4Verse 4. So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him. 5Verse 5. And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD. 6Verse 6. Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, 7Verse 7. maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” 8Verse 8. Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped. 9Verse 9. “O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”