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What was a blood covenant?



      

Genesis 15:9 - 21

ESV - 9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
The scene would look quite ominous to modern-day observers-five bloody animal carcasses on the ground, three of them split in half, with the halves separated a short distance from each other. But i...

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