Génesis 15
1 Después de estas cosas, la palabra del Señor v ino a Abram en visión, diciendo: No temas, Abram: Te guardaré, y grande será tu recompensa.
Some time later, Abram had a vision in which Yahweh spoke to him and said, “Do not be afraid of (anything/your enemies). I will protect you [MTY], and I will give a great reward.”
2 Y Abram dijo: ¿Qué me darás? porque no tengo hijos, y este Eliezer de Damasco tendrá todas mis riquezas después de mí.
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can you give me what I truly want, because I have no children, and the one who will be like a son and inherit all my possessions is my servant Eliezer from Damascus!”
3 Y dijo Abram: No me has dado hijo, y un siervo en mi casa tendrá heredad.
Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
4 Entonces dijo el Señor: Este hombre no tendrá heredad, pero un hijo de tu cuerpo tendrá tu propiedad después de ti.
Yahweh replied, “No! He will not be the one who will inherit it. Instead, you yourself will be the father of the one who will inherit everything you own.”
5 Y él lo sacó al aire libre, y le dijo: Levanta tus ojos al cielo, y ve si las estrellas pueden ser contadas; así será tu simiente.
Then Yahweh took Abram outside [of his tent] and said, “Look up at the sky! Can you count the stars? No, you cannot count them because there are so many of them, and your descendants will be as numerous as the stars.”
6 Y tuvo fe en el Señor, y fue justificado en su honor.
Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
7 Y él le dijo: Yo soy el Señor, que te tomó de Ur de los Caldeos, para darte esta tierra por tu heredad.
Yahweh also said to him, “I am Yahweh. I am the one who brought you from Ur in Chaldea land. I brought you here to give you this land to possess.”
8 Y dijo: Oh Señor Dios, ¿cómo puedo estar seguro de que será mío?
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
9 Y él dijo: Toma una becerra y una cabra, cada una de tres años, y una paloma y un pichón.
God said to him, “Bring a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat to me, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10 Tomó todos estos, cortándolos en dos y poniendo una mitad opuesta a la otra, pero no cortando las aves en dos.
So Abram brought all of them and killed them and cut each of the animals in half. He arranged the halves of each one, side by side. But he did not cut the pigeon and dove in half.
11 Y las aves de rapiña descendieron sobre los cuerpos, pero Abram los ahuyentaba.
Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
12 Y cuando el sol se ponía, un sueño profundo vino sobre Abram, y una nube oscura de temor.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
13 Y dijo a Abram: Verdaderamente tu descendencia vivirá en una tierra que no es suya, como siervos de un pueblo que será cruel con ellos por cuatrocientos años;
Then God said to Abram, “I want you to know that your descendants will become foreigners living in a land that does not belong to them. They will become slaves of the owners of that land. The owners of the land will mistreat them for 400 years.
14 Pero yo seré el juez de la nación cuyos siervos son, y saldrán de en medio de ellos con gran riqueza.
But then I will punish the people of that country that made them become slaves, and then your descendants will leave that country, taking many possessions with them.
15 En cuanto a ti, irás a tus padres en paz; al final de una larga vida, te colocarán en tu último lugar de descanso.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 Y en la cuarta generación volverán aquí; porque en este momento el pecado del amorreo no está lleno.
After your descendants have been slaves for 400 years, they will return here, and take control of this land and defeat the Amor people-group. Those people will, because those people have not yet sinned enough to deserve to be punished now.”
17 Y cuando el sol se ponía y estaba oscuro, vio un fuego humeante y una luz encendida que se filtraba entre las partes de los cuerpos.
When the sun had set and it had become dark, [unexpectedly] a blazing torch and a clay pot containing burning coals from which smoke was rising appeared and went between the halves of the animals.
18 En aquel día él Señor hizo un pacto con Abram, y dijo: A tu descendencia daré esta tierra desde el río de Egipto hasta el gran río Eufrates:
And on that day Yahweh made an agreement with Abram. Yahweh told him, “I will give to your descendants all the land between the river that is on the eastern border of Egypt to the south, and north to the huge Euphrates River.
19 La tierra de los ceneos, los cenezeos y los cadmoneos,
That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
20 y los heteos, y los ferezeos, y los refaítas,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
21 Y los amorreos, y los cananeos, y los gergeseos, y los jebuseos.
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
