16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."


In Context

13 Then the Lord said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.

16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates-

Genesis 15:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:16But 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.