Yaratiliş 15
1 Bundan sonra RAB bir görümde Avram'a, “Korkma, Avram” diye seslendi, “Senin kalkanın benim. Ödülün çok büyük olacak.”
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 Avram, “Ey Egemen RAB, bana ne vereceksin?” dedi, “Çocuk sahibi olamadım. Evim Şamlı Eliezer'e kalacak.
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 Bana çocuk vermediğin için evimdeki bir uşak mirasçım olacak.”
Abram added, “You have not given me any children, so think about this: A servant in my household will inherit all I own!”
4 RAB yine seslendi: “O mirasçın olmayacak, öz çocuğun mirasçın olacak.”
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 Sonra Avram'ı dışarı çıkararak, “Göklere bak” dedi, “Yıldızları sayabilir misin? İşte, soyun o kadar çok olacak.”
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 Avram RAB'be iman etti, RAB bunu ona doğruluk saydı.
Abram believed that what Yahweh said would happen. And because of that, Yahweh considered that Abram was righteous.
7 Tanrı Avram'a, “Bu toprakları sana miras olarak vermek için Kildaniler'in Ur Kenti'nden seni çıkaran RAB benim” dedi.
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 Avram, “Ey Egemen RAB, bu toprakları miras alacağımı nasıl bileceğim?” diye sordu.
But Abram replied, “Yahweh God, how can I know for sure that this land will belong to me?”
9 RAB, “Bana bir düve, bir keçi, bir de koç getir” dedi, “Hepsi üçer yaşında olsun. Bir de kumruyla güvercin yavrusu getir.”
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 Avram hepsini getirdi, ortadan kesip parçaları birbirine karşı dizdi. Yalnız kuşları kesmedi.
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 Leşlerin üzerine konan yırtıcı kuşları kovdu.
Birds that eat dead flesh came down to eat the carcasses, but Abram shooed them away.
12 Güneş batarken Avram derin bir uykuya daldı. Üzerine dehşet verici zifiri bir karanlık çöktü.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell sound asleep, and suddenly everything around him became dark and frightening.
13 RAB Avram'a şöyle dedi: “Şunu iyi bil ki, senin soyun yabancı bir ülkede, gurbette yaşayacak. Dört yüz yıl kölelik edip baskı görecek.
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 Ama soyuna kölelik yaptıran ulusu cezalandıracağım. Sonra soyun oradan büyük mal varlığıyla çıkacak.
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 Sen de esenlik içinde atalarına kavuşacaksın. İleri yaşta ölüp gömüleceksin.
But as for you, you will die [EUP] peacefully when you are very old.
16 Soyunun dördüncü kuşağı buraya geri dönecek. Çünkü Amorlular'ın yaptığı kötülükler henüz doruğa varmadı.”
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 Güneş batıp karanlık çökünce, dumanlı bir mangalla alevli bir meşale göründü ve kesilen hayvan parçalarının arasından geçti.
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 O gün RAB Avram'la antlaşma yaparak ona şöyle dedi: “Mısır Irmağı'ndan büyük Fırat Irmağı'na kadar uzanan bu toprakları –Ken, Keniz, Kadmon, Hitit, Periz, Refa, Amor, Kenan, Girgaş ve Yevus topraklarını– senin soyuna vereceğim.”
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.
That is the land where the Ken, the Keniz, the Kidmon,
the Heth, the Periz, the Repha,
the Amor, the Canaan, the Girgash, and the Tebus people-groups live.”
