Genesis 15
1 And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly 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: “Lord God, what will you give to me? I may go without children. And the son of the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.”
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 added: “Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir.”
And Abram says, “Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir.”
4 And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: “This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your 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 outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring 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 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness.
7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”
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 But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”
and he says, “Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
9 And the Lord responded by saying: “Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-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 Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. 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 descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.
12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded 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 him: “Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for 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 Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;
16 But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time.”
and the fourth generation turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
17 Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
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 On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even 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 land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites
with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”
