Genesis 15
1 Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, “Do not be afraid of (anything/your enemies). I will protect you [MTY], and I will give a great reward.”
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 But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will be like a son and inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from 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 Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
And Abram says, “Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir.”
4 Yahweh replied, “No! He will not be the one who will inherit it. Instead, you yourself will be the father of the one who will inherit everything you own.”
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 Then Yahweh took Abram outside [of his tent] and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”
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 that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness.
7 Yahweh also said to him, “I am Yahweh. I am the one who brought you from Ur in Chaldea land. I brought you here to give you this land to possess.”
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 Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
and he says, “Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
9 God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, 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 Abram brought all of them and killed them and cut each of the animals in half. He arranged the halves of each one, side by side. But he did not cut the pigeon and dove in half.
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 Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.
12 As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
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 Then God said to Abram, “I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 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 But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.
and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;
15 But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;
16 After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.”
and the fourth generation turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
17 When the sun had set and it had become dark, [unexpectedly] a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.
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 And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.
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 That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
20 the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
21 the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”
