Genesis 15

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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.	1 Some time after these events, this word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Fear not, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great."
2 Dixitque Abram : Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi ? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.	2 But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what good will your gifts be, if I keep on being childless and have as my heir the steward of my house, Eliezer?"
3 Addiditque Abram : Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.	3 Abram continued, "See, you have given me no offspring, and so one of my servants will be my heir."
4 Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens : Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.	4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "No, that one shall not be your heir; your own issue shall be your heir."
5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi : Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei : Sic erit semen tuum.	5 He took him outside and said: "Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so," he added, "shall your descendants be."
6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.	6 Abram put his faith in the LORD, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness.
7 Dixitque ad eum : Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.	7 He then said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession."
8 At ille ait : Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam ?	8 "O Lord GOD," he asked, "How am I to know that I shall possess it?"
9 Et respondens Dominus : Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.	9 He answered him, "Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
10 Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit ; aves autem non divisit.	10 He brought him all these, split them in two, and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut up.
11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.	11 Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram stayed with them.
12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.	12 As the sun was about to set, a trance fell upon Abram, and a deep, terrifying darkness enveloped him.
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.	13 Then the LORD said to Abram: "Know for certain that your descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo : et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.	14 But I will bring judgment on the nation they must serve, and in the end they will depart with great wealth.
15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.	15 You, however, shall join your forefathers in peace; you shall be buried at a contented old age.
16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc : necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.	16 In the fourth time-span the others shall come back here; the wickedness of the Amorites will not have reached its full measure until then."
17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.	17 When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking brazier and a flaming torch, which passed between those pieces.
18 In illo die pepigit Dominus f?dus cum Abram, dicens : Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,	18 It was on that occasion that the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River (the Euphrates),
19 Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,	19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,	20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.	21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."