Genesis 15

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 Some time later, the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram! I am yourshield and shal give you a very great reward.	1 His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens : Noli timere, Abram : ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.
2 'Lord Yahweh,' Abram replied, 'what use are your gifts, as I am going on my way childless? . . .	2 Dixitque Abram : Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi ? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
3 Since you have given me no offspring,' Abram continued, 'a member of my household will be my heir.'	3 Addiditque Abram : Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.
4 Then Yahweh's word came to him in reply, 'Such a one wil not be your heir; no, your heir will be theissue of your own body.'	4 Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens : Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.
5 Then taking him outside, he said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so wil yourdescendants be,' he told him.	5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi : Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei : Sic erit semen tuum.
6 Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.	6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.
7 He then said to him, 'I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldaeans to give you thiscountry as your possession.'	7 Dixitque ad eum : Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8 'Lord Yahweh,' Abram replied, 'how can I know that I shal possess it?'	8 At ille ait : Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam ?
9 He said to him, 'Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, aturtledove and a young pigeon.'	9 Et respondens Dominus : Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.
10 He brought him all these, split the animals down the middle and placed each half opposite the other;but the birds he did not divide.	10 Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit ; aves autem non divisit.
11 And whenever birds of prey swooped down on the carcases, Abram drove them off.	11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12 Now, as the sun was on the point of setting, a trance fel on Abram, and a deep dark dreaddescended on him.	12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
13 Then Yahweh said to Abram, 'Know this for certain, that your descendants will be exiles in a land nottheir own, and be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.	13 Dictumque est ad eum : Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subjicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
14 But I shal bring judgement on the nation that enslaves them and after this they wil leave, with manypossessions.	14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo : et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15 For your part, you wil join your ancestors in peace; you wil be buried at a happy old age.	15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
16 In the fourth generation they wil come back here, for until then the iniquity of the Amorites wil nothave reached its ful extent.'	16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc : necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
17 When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passingbetween the animals' pieces.	17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
18 That day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram in these terms: 'To your descendants I give thiscountry, from the River of Egypt to the Great River, the River Euphrates,	18 In illo die pepigit Dominus f?dus cum Abram, dicens : Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
19 the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,	19 Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,	20 et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'	21 et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.