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Genesis 15
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.
1After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
2And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.
2And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
3And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.
3And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
4And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying : He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.
4Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.
5And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
5And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
6Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
6And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
7And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
7And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
8But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
8And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
9And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
9And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
10And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.
10All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
11And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
11And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.
12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
12Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.
13And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
13And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
14But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
14But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
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.
16And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
17And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
17Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.
18That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
18In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: