Genesis 15

1 His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem, dicens: Noli timere Abram, ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.

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.

2 Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.

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?

3 Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen: et ecce vernaculus meus, heres meus erit.

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir.

4 Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic heres tuus: sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis heredem.

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.

5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suscipe cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.

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.

6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

7 Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.

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.

8 At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?

And he said, Lord God, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque, et columbam.

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.

10 Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit: aves autem non divisit.

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.

11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.

And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.

12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

13 Dictumque est ad eum: Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subiicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.

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;

14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.

And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.

17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.

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.

18 In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,

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:

19 Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,

The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20 et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,

And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

21 et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Iebusæos.

And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.