Genesis 15
1 After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.
His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem, dicens: Noli timere Abram, ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.
2 And Abram said, O lord Jehovah, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
3 And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir.
Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen: et ecce vernaculus meus, heres meus erit.
4 And, behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir, but he who shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic heres tuus: sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis heredem.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suscipe cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
6 And he believed in Jehovah, and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.
7 And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8 And he said, O lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?
9 And he said to him, Take a heifer three years old for me, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle dove, and a young pigeon.
Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque, et columbam.
10 And he took all these for him, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other. But he did not divide the birds.
Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit: aves autem non divisit.
11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
13 And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Dictumque est ad eum: Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subiicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
14 And also I will judge that nation, whom they shall serve, and afterward they shall come out with great substance.
Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15 But thou will go to thy fathers in peace; thou will be buried in a good old age.
Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
16 And in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Iebusæos.
