Kenehi 15
1 Muri iho i enei mea ka puta moemoea mai te kupu a Ihowa ki a Aperama, ka mea, Kaua e wehi, e Aperama: ko ahau tou whakangungu rakau, tou utu nui whakaharahara.
After these things the word of YHWH has been to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not fear, Abram, I [am] a shield to you, your reward [is] exceedingly great.”
2 Na ka mea a Aperama, E te Ariki, e Ihowa, ko te aha e homai e koe ki ahau, e haere urikore nei ahau, a ko te taunga o toku whare hei tenei Erietera o Ramahiku?
And Abram says, “Lord YHWH, what do You give to me, and I am going childless? And an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.”
3 I mea ano a Aperama, Titiro hoki, kahore nei i homai e koe he uri ki ahau: a akuanei, kei tetahi tamaiti i whanau ki toku whare te mahuetanga iho o oku taonga.
And Abram says, “Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir.”
4 Na, kua puta mai te kupu a Ihowa ki a ia, i mea ia, E kore e mahue iho ou taonga mo tena; engari ka mahue iho mo tetahi e puta mai i roto i ou whekau.
And behold, the word of YHWH [is] to him, saying, “This [one] will not be your heir; but he who comes out from your bowels, he will be your heir”;
5 Na ka kawea ia e ia ki waho, a ka mea mai, Tena tirohia atu te rangi, taua hoki nga whetu, ki te taea ena e koe te tatau: a ka mea ia ki a ia, Ka pera tou uri.
and He brings him out outside and says, “Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them”; and He says to him, “Thus is your seed.”
6 I whakapono hoki ia ki a Ihowa, a ka whakairia ki a ia hei tika.
And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness.
7 I mea ano ia ki a ia, Ko Ihowa ahau, nana nei koe i kawe mai i Uru o nga Karari, kia hoatu ai ki a koe tenei whenua hei kainga pumau.
And He says to him, “I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it”;
8 Ano ra ko ia, E te Ariki, e Ihowa, ma te aha ka mohio ai ahau ka riro mai tenei i ahau?
and he says, “Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
9 Na ka mea ia ki a ia, Tikina tetahi kau maku, hei te tau toru, me tetahi koati uha, hei te tau toru, me tetahi hipi toa, hei te tau toru, me tetahi kukupa, me tetahi pi kukupa.
And He says to him, “Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a female goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird”;
10 Na tikina ana e ia aua mea katoa, a tapahia ana i waenganui, whakatakotoria ana nga wahi kia rite mai ki a raua whakawahi: ko nga manu ia kihai i tapahia e ia.
and he takes all these to Him, and separates them in the midst, and puts each piece opposite its fellow, but the bird he has not divided;
11 A ka rere iho nga manu ki nga tinana, ka aia atu e Aperama.
and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.
12 Na, i te rerenga o te ra, ka parangia a Aperama e te moe; na ko te whakawehi o te pouri kerekere e tau iho ana ki a ia.
And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep has fallen on Abram, and behold, a terror of great darkness is falling on him;
13 A ka mea ia ki a Aperama, Kia tino mohio koe, ka noho manene tou uri ki tetahi whenua ehara nei i a ratou, a ka mahi ki a ratou; a e wha rau nga tau e whakatupuria kinotia ai ratou;
and He says to Abram, “knowing—know that your seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,
14 Ka whakawakia ano e ahau te iwi e whakamahia ai ratou: a muri iho ka puta mai ratou me nga taonga maha.
and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;
15 Ko koe ia ka haere marie ki ou matua; ka pai tou koroheketanga, a tanumia noatia koe.
and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;
16 Kei te wha ia a nga whakatupuranga ka hoki mai ratou ki konei no te mea kahore ano kia tutuki noa te hara o nga Amori.
and the fourth generation turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
17 Na i te tonga o te ra, no ka pouri, na, ko te oumu paowa, me te rama e ka ana, e tika ana i waenganui o aua porohanga.
And it comes to pass—the sun has gone in, and thick darkness has been and behold, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which has passed over between those pieces.
18 I taua rangi ano ka whakaritea e Ihowa he kawenata ki a Aperama, ka mea ia, Ka hoatu e ahau tenei whenua ki tou uri, mai ra ano o te awa o Ihipa, a tae noa ki te awa nui, ki te awa, ki Uparati:
In that day has YHWH made with Abram a covenant, saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River,
19 Nga Keni, nga Keniti, nga Karamoni,
with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
20 Nga Hiti, nga Perihi, nga Repaima,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
21 Nga Amori, nga Kanaani, nga Kirikahi, me nga Iepuhi.
and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”
