Genesis 15
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
1His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens: Noli timere, Abram: ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.
2But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
2Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
3Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
3Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.
4Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
4Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.
5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
5Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
6Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.
6Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.
7The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
7Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
8At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam?
9And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
9Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.
10So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
10Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit; aves autem non divisit.
11And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
11Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
12Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
13Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
13Dictumque est ad eum: Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subjicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
14But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
14Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
15Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
16Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
17Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
18On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
18In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
19Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
20et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
21et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.
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