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 events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
2 Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer.
But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen: et ecce vernaculus meus, heres meus erit.
Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be 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.
Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice caelum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.
Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
7 Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldaeorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
8 At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?
But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
9 Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque, et columbam.
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
10 Qui tollens universa haec, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit: aves autem non divisit.
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
13 Dictumque est ad eum: Scito praenoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subiicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia.
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum usque ad praesens tempus.
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
18 In illo die pepigit Dominus foedus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Aegypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
19 Cinaeos, et Cenezaeos, Cedmonaeos,
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 et Hethaeos, et Pherezaeos, Raphaim quoque,
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 et Amorrhaeos, et Chananaeos, et Gergesaeos, et Iebusaeos.
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
