Genesis 15
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.”
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 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.”
Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis: et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
3 And Abram added: “Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir.”
Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen: et ecce vernaculus meus, heres meus erit.
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.”
Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic heres tuus: sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis heredem.
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.”
Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suscipe cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad iustitiam.
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.”
Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8 But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”
At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum, quod possessurus sim eam?
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.”
Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam trienem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque, et columbam.
10 Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit: aves autem non divisit.
11 And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
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.
Dictumque est ad eum: Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subiicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
14 Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego iudicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
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.”
Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
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.
Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
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:
In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
19 the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites
Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20 and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,
et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
21 and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Iebusæos.
