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 LORD’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
2 Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer.
Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen: et ecce vernaculus meus, heres meus erit.
Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, 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.
Behold, the LORD’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of 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.
The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now towards the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.
He believed in the LORD, who credited it to him for righteousness.
7 Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldaeorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
He said to Abram, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
8 At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?
He said, “Lord GOD, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
9 Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque, et columbam.
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, 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.
He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on 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.
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia.
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum usque ad praesens tempus.
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18 In illo die pepigit Dominus foedus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Aegypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 Cinaeos, et Cenezaeos, Cedmonaeos,
the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 et Hethaeos, et Pherezaeos, Raphaim quoque,
the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 et Amorrhaeos, et Chananaeos, et Gergesaeos, et Iebusaeos.
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
