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


In Context

13 He said to Abram, |Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

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

17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, |To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:16In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

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 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.