Genesis 15

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 hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I <FI>am<Fi> a shield to thee, thy reward <FI>is<Fi> exceeding great.'

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 saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.'

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 saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

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.

4And lo, the word of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> unto him, saying, `This <FI>one<Fi> doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

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 bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

6Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

6And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him--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 saith unto him, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

8But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?

8and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

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 saith unto him, `Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;'

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.

10and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided;

11And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

11and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.

12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

12And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

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 saith to Abram, `knowing--know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

14But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

14and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;

15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

15and thou--thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

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 the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

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.

17And it cometh to pass--the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been--and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

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 hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,

19The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,

19with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

20And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,

20and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

21And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

21and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'