◄ Genesis 15:11 ►
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Good News Translation
Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.

New Revised Standard Version
And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

Contemporary English Version
And when birds came down to eat the animals, Abram chased them away.

New American Bible
Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram scared them away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

fowls.

Ezekiel 17:3,7 And say: Thus saith the Lord God; A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar. . . .

Matthew 13:4 And whilst he soweth some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.

Abram.

Psalm 119:13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

Context
God Confirms His Promise
…10And 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. 11And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.…
Cross References
Genesis 15:10
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.

Genesis 15:12
And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

Genesis 15:10
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