Genesis 15

1 And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.

After these things the word of YHWH has been to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not fear, Abram, I [am] a shield to you, your reward [is] exceedingly great.”

2 And Abram said, Master [and] Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus [is mine heir.]

And Abram says, “Lord YHWH, what do You give to me, and I am going childless? And an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.”

3 And Abram said, [I am grieved] since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born [servant] shall succeed me.

And Abram says, “Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir.”

4 And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir.

And behold, the word of YHWH [is] to him, saying, “This [one] will not be your heir; but he who comes out from your bowels, he will be your heir”;

5 And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall thy seed be.

and He brings him out outside and says, “Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them”; and He says to him, “Thus is your seed.”

6 And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness.

7 And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.

And He says to him, “I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it”;

8 And he said, Master [and] Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

and he says, “Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?”

9 And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.

And He says to him, “Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a female goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird”;

10 So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.

and he takes all these to Him, and separates them in the midst, and puts each piece opposite its fellow, but the bird he has not divided;

11 And birds came down upon the bodies, [even] upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.

and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.

12 And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.

And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep has fallen on Abram, and behold, a terror of great darkness is falling on him;

13 And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their won, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

and He says to Abram, “knowing—know that your seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

14 And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much property.

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

15 But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.

and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;

16 And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.

and the fourth generation turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

17 And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.

And it comes to pass—the sun has gone in, and thick darkness has been and behold, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which has passed over between those pieces.

18 In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.

In that day has YHWH made with Abram a covenant, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River,

19 The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans,

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

20 and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,

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

21 and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”