Genesis 15:16 Cross References - BBE

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

⁴⁰ Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

²⁶ He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.}

²³ And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.

⁵ And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out. ⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land. ⁷ And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah. ⁸ And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it. ⁹ And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven. ¹⁰ And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah? ¹¹ And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.

³² Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. ³³ You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? ³⁴ For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; ³⁵ So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

¹⁶ Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.

⁸ But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day. ⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.