Genesis 15

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great.”	1 بعد هذه الامور صار كلام الرب الى ابرام في الرؤيا قائلا. لا تخف يا ابرام. انا ترس لك. اجرك كثير جدا.
2 And Abram said: “Lord God, what will you give to me? I may go without children. And the son of the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.”	2 فقال ابرام ايها السيد الرب ماذا تعطيني وانا ماض عقيما ومالك بيتي هو أليعازر الدمشقي.
3 And Abram added: “Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir.”	3 وقال ابرام ايضا انك لم تعطني نسلا وهوذا ابن بيتي وارث لي.
4 And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: “This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your heir.”	4 فاذا كلام الرب اليه قائلا. لا يرثك هذا. بل الذي يخرج من احشائك هو يرثك.
5 And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”	5 ثم اخرجه الى خارج وقال انظر الى السماء وعدّ النجوم ان استطعت ان تعدّها. وقال له هكذا يكون نسلك.
6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.	6 فآمن بالرب فحسبه له برا.
7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”	7 وقال له انا الرب الذي اخرجك من أور الكلدانيين ليعطيك هذه الارض لترثها.
8 But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”	8 فقال ايها السيد الرب بماذا اعلم اني ارثها.
9 And the Lord responded by saying: “Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-dove and a pigeon.”	9 فقال له خذ لي عجلة ثلثية وعنزة ثلثية وكبشا ثلثيا ويمامة وحمامة.
10 Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.	10 فأخذ هذه كلها وشقها من الوسط وجعل شق كل واحد مقابل صاحبه. واما الطير فلم يشقه.
11 And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.	11 فنزلت الجوارح على الجثث وكان ابرام يزجرها
12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.	12 ولما صارت الشمس الى المغيب وقع على ابرام سبات. واذا رعبة مظلمة عظيمة واقعة عليه.
13 And it was said to him: “Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years.	13 فقال لابرام اعلم يقينا ان نسلك سيكون غريبا في ارض ليست لهم ويستعبدون لهم. فيذلونهم اربع مئة سنة.
14 Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.	14 ثم الامة التي يستعبدون لها انا ادينها. وبعد ذلك يخرجون باملاك جزيلة.
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.	15 واما انت فتمضي الى آبائك بسلام وتدفن بشيبة صالحة.
16 But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time.”	16 وفي الجيل الرابع يرجعون الى ههنا. لان ذنب الاموريين ليس الى الآن كاملا.
17 Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.	17 ثم غابت الشمس فصارت العتمة. واذا تنور دخان ومصباح نار يجوز بين تلك القطع
18 On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates:	18 في ذلك اليوم قطع الرب مع ابرام ميثاقا قائلا. لنسلك اعطي هذه الارض من نهر مصر الى النهر الكبير نهر الفرات.
19 the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites	19 القينيين والقنزّيين والقدمونيين
20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,	20 والحثّيين والفرزّيين والرفائيين
21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”	21 والأموريين والكنعانيين والجرجاشيين واليبوسيين