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.
And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great.”
2 Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer.
And Abram said: “Lord God, what will you give to me? I may go without children. And the son of 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 added: “Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house 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.
And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: “This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your heir.”
5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice caelum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.
Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7 Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldaeorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
And he said to him, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”
8 At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?
But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to 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 responded by saying: “Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-dove and a pigeon.”
10 Qui tollens universa haec, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit: aves autem non divisit.
Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded 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.
And it was said to him: “Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years.
14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia.
Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum usque ad praesens tempus.
But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time.”
17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
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, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates:
19 Cinaeos, et Cenezaeos, Cedmonaeos,
the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites
20 et Hethaeos, et Pherezaeos, Raphaim quoque,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,
21 et Amorrhaeos, et Chananaeos, et Gergesaeos, et Iebusaeos.
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
