1 Mose 15
1 Eyinom akyi no, Awurade kasa kyerɛɛ Abram wɔ anisoadehu mu se, “Abram, nsuro. Meyɛ wo nkatabo. Meyɛ wo kyɛfa a ɛsom bo.”
Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great.
2 Abram nso buae se, “Awurade Nyankopɔn, dɛn na wode bɛma me wɔ bere a minni ɔba. Onipa a obedi mʼade no yɛ Damaskoni Elieser?”
And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer.
3 Na Abram toaa so se, “Wommaa me mma nti, akoa a wɔwoo no wɔ me fi no na obedi mʼade.”
And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir.
4 Na Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Abram se, “Saa ɔbarima yi renni wʼade da, gye wʼankasa wo yafunumma.”
And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.
5 Onyankopɔn de Abram kɔɔ afikyiri, na ɔka kyerɛɛ no se, “Ma wʼani so hwɛ soro na hwɛ sɛ wubetumi akan soro nsoromma ana.” Afei, Onyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ Abram se, “Saa ara na wʼasefo bɛdɔɔso nen.”
And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
6 Abram gyee asɛm a Awurade kae no dii. Ne saa nti, Awurade buu no onipa trenee.
Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7 Awurade Nyankopɔn ka kyerɛɛ Abram bio se, “Mene Awurade a mede wo fi Ur a ɛwɔ Kaldeafo asase so bae sɛ mede saa asase yi rema wo sɛ wʼagyapade.”
And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
8 Nanso Abram kae se, “Ɔsorosoro Awurade, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na mehu sɛ asase no bɛyɛ me dea?”
But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
9 Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Abram se, “Fa nantwi ba a wadi mfe abiɛsa, abirekyibere a wadi mfe abiɛsa, Odwennini a wadi mfe abiɛsa, agyenkuku ne aborɔnoma ba brɛ me.”
And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
10 Abram de eyinom nyinaa brɛɛ Onyankopɔn, paapae wɔn mu abien abien, na ɔde afaafa no kyerɛkyerɛɛ anim, de guguu hɔ. Na nnomaa no de, wampaapae wɔn mu.
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not.
11 Na apete besisii mmoa no afunu so no, Abram pam wɔn.
And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 Bere a owia rekɔtɔ no, Abram daa hatee, na sum kabii a ɛyɛ hu tɔɔ ne so.
And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
13 Afei, Awurade ka kyerɛɛ Abram se, “Gye di sɛ wʼasefo bɛyɛ ahɔho wɔ asase a ɛnyɛ wɔn dea so. Wɔbɛyɛ nkoa wɔ ɔman no mu, asom, na wɔayɛ wɔn ayayade mfe ahannan.
And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.
14 Nanso mɛtwe saa ɔman a wʼasefo bɛsom wɔn no aso, na ɛno akyi no, wobefi ɔman a wɔsom mu no mu aba sɛ adefo.
But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
15 Wo de, wubewu asomdwoe mu. Wubenyin akyɛ yiye ansa na woawu.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
16 Nanso awo ntoatoaso a ɛto so anan no mu, wʼasefo bɛsan aba saa ɔman yi mu bio. Efisɛ saa bere yi, Amorifo a wɔte saa asase yi so nnɛ yi bɔne a wɔyɛ no nnya nnuu nea wɔtwe wɔn aso ma ɛyɛ yiye ɛ.”
But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.
17 Na ɛbaa sɛ owia kɔtɔe, na sum durui no, Abram huu ogyaframa bi sɛ ɛrefi wusiw ne ogyatɛn a ɛredɛw bɛfaa mmoa a wɔakum wɔn no afunu afaafa no ntam.
And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
18 Saa da no ara, Awurade ne Abram yɛɛ apam, kae se, “Mede saa asase a efi Misraim asubɔnten no ho, de kosi asubɔnten kɛse Eufrate ho bɛma wo ne wʼasefo.
That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
19 Saa ara nso na mede Kenifo, Kenesifo, Kadmonifo,
The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
20 Hetifo, Perisifo, Refaimfo,
And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
21 Amorifo, Kanaanfo, Girgasifo ne Yebusifo nsase nyinaa bɛma wo ne wʼasefo no.”
And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
