Genesis 15:12
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
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- Gen 2:21 : 21 Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
- Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
- Dan 10:8-9 : 8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. 9 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
- Acts 9:8-9 : 8 Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus. 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
- Acts 20:9 : 9 A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.
- Ps 4:3-5 : 3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him. 4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah. 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
- 1 Sam 26:12 : 12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them.
- Job 4:13-14 : 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
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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:
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11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.
10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.
11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
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15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
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1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don't be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
2 Abram said, "Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
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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.
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13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
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14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
7 Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
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5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
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22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
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14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
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17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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21 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
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22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
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1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.
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17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.
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1 Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
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33 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
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13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
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11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
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15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
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11 He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."