Genesis 15
1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.
這些事以後，有上主的話在神視中對亞巴郎說：「亞巴郎，你不要怕，我是你的盾牌；你得的報酬必很豐厚! 」
2 And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?
亞巴郎說：「我主上主! 你能給我什麼﹖我一直沒有兒子；繼承我家業的是大馬士革人厄里則爾。」
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir.
亞巴郎又說：「你既沒有賜給我後裔，那麼只有一個家僕來作我的承繼人。」
4 And behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir.
有上主的話答覆他說：「這人決不會是你的承繼人，而是你親生的要做你的承繼人。」
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
上主遂領他到外面說：「請你仰觀蒼天，數點星辰，你能夠數清嗎﹖」繼而對他說：「你的後裔也將這樣。」
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
亞巴郎相信了上主，上主就以此算為他的正義。
7 And he said to him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
上主又對他說：「我是上主，我從加色丁人的烏爾領你出來，是為將這地賜給你作為產業。」
8 And he said, Lord God, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?
亞巴郎說：「我主上主! 我如何知道我要佔有此地為產業﹖」
9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
上主對他說：「你給我拿來一隻三歲的母牛，一隻三歲的母山羊，一隻三歲的公綿羊，一隻斑鳩和一隻雛鴿。」
10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds he did not divide.
亞巴郎便把這一切拿了來，每樣從中剖開，將一半與另一半相對排列，只有飛鳥沒有剖開。
11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
有鷙鳥落在獸屍上，亞巴郎就把牠們趕走。
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
太陽快要西落時，亞巴郎昏沉地睡去，忽覺陰森萬分，遂害怕起來。
13 And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
上主對亞巴郎說：「你當知道，你的後裔必要寄居在異邦，受人奴役虐待四百年之久。
14 And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
但是，我要親自懲罰他們所要服事的民族；如此你的後裔必要帶著豐富的財物由那裏出來。
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
至於你，你要享受高壽，以後平安回到你列祖那裏，被人埋葬。
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
到了第四代，他們必要回到這裏，因為阿摩黎人的罪惡至今尚未滿貫。」
17 And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
當日落天黑的時候，看，有冒煙的火爐和燃著的火炬，由那些肉塊間經過。
18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
在這一天，上主與亞巴郎立約說：「我要賜給你後裔的這土地，是從埃及河直到幼發拉的河，
19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
就是刻尼人、刻納次人、卡德摩尼人、
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
赫特人、培黎齊人、勒法因人、
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
阿摩黎人、客納罕人、基爾加士人和耶步斯人的土地。」
