Kejadian 15
1 Kemudian datanglah firman TUHAN kepada Abram dalam suatu penglihatan: "Janganlah takut, Abram, Akulah perisaimu; upahmu akan sangat besar."
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.”
2 Abram menjawab: "Ya Tuhan ALLAH, apakah yang akan Engkau berikan kepadaku, karena aku akan meninggal dengan tidak mempunyai anak, dan yang akan mewarisi rumahku ialah Eliezer, orang Damsyik itu."
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!”
3 Lagi kata Abram: "Engkau tidak memberikan kepadaku keturunan, sehingga seorang hambaku nanti menjadi ahli warisku."
Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
4 Tetapi datanglah firman TUHAN kepadanya, demikian: "Orang ini tidak akan menjadi ahli warismu, melainkan anak kandungmu, dialah yang akan menjadi ahli warismu."
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.”
5 Lalu TUHAN membawa Abram ke luar serta berfirman: "Coba lihat ke langit, hitunglah bintang-bintang, jika engkau dapat menghitungnya." Maka firman-Nya kepadanya: "Demikianlah banyaknya nanti keturunanmu."
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.”
6 Lalu percayalah Abram kepada TUHAN, maka TUHAN memperhitungkan hal itu kepadanya sebagai kebenaran.
Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
7 Lagi firman TUHAN kepadanya: "Akulah TUHAN, yang membawa engkau keluar dari Ur-Kasdim untuk memberikan negeri ini kepadamu menjadi milikmu."
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.”
8 Kata Abram: "Ya Tuhan ALLAH, dari manakah aku tahu, bahwa aku akan memilikinya?"
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
9 Firman TUHAN kepadanya: "Ambillah bagi-Ku seekor lembu betina berumur tiga tahun, seekor kambing betina berumur tiga tahun, seekor domba jantan berumur tiga tahun, seekor burung tekukur dan seekor anak burung merpati."
God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10 Diambilnyalah semuanya itu bagi TUHAN, dipotong dua, lalu diletakkannya bagian-bagian itu yang satu di samping yang lain, tetapi burung-burung itu tidak dipotong dua.
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.
11 Ketika burung-burung buas hinggap pada daging binatang-binatang itu, maka Abram mengusirnya.
Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
12 Menjelang matahari terbenam, tertidurlah Abram dengan nyenyak. Lalu turunlah meliputinya gelap gulita yang mengerikan.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
13 Firman TUHAN kepada Abram: "Ketahuilah dengan sesungguhnya bahwa keturunanmu akan menjadi orang asing dalam suatu negeri, yang bukan kepunyaan mereka, dan bahwa mereka akan diperbudak dan dianiaya, empat ratus tahun lamanya.
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.
14 Tetapi bangsa yang akan memperbudak mereka, akan Kuhukum, dan sesudah itu mereka akan keluar dengan membawa harta benda yang banyak.
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.
15 Tetapi engkau akan pergi kepada nenek moyangmu dengan sejahtera; engkau akan dikuburkan pada waktu telah putih rambutmu.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 Tetapi keturunan yang keempat akan kembali ke sini, sebab sebelum itu kedurjanaan orang Amori itu belum genap."
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.”
17 Ketika matahari telah terbenam, dan hari menjadi gelap, maka kelihatanlah perapian yang berasap beserta suluh yang berapi lewat di antara potongan-potongan daging itu.
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.
18 Pada hari itulah TUHAN mengadakan perjanjian dengan Abram serta berfirman: "Kepada keturunanmulah Kuberikan negeri ini, mulai dari sungai Mesir sampai ke sungai yang besar itu, sungai Efrat:
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.
19 yakni tanah orang Keni, orang Kenas, orang Kadmon,
That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
20 orang Het, orang Feris, orang Refaim,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
21 orang Amori, orang Kanaan, orang Girgasi dan orang Yebus itu."
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
