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 hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, 'Fear not, Abram, I [am] a shield to thee, thy reward [is] exceeding great.'

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

And Abram saith, 'Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.'

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

And Abram saith, 'Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

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

And lo, the word of Jehovah [is] unto him, saying, 'This [one] doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

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

and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.'

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

And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him — righteousness.

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

And He saith unto him, 'I [am] Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

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

and he saith, 'Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?'

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

And He saith unto him, 'Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;'

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

and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided;

11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.

and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.

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

And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon 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 He saith to Abram, 'knowing — know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,

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

and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;

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

and thou — thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum usque ad praesens tempus.

and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

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

And it cometh to pass — the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been — and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those 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 hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, 'To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,

19 Cinaeos, et Cenezaeos, Cedmonaeos,

with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

20 et Hethaeos, et Pherezaeos, Raphaim quoque,

and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

21 et Amorrhaeos, et Chananaeos, et Gergesaeos, et Iebusaeos.

and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.'