Genesis 15
1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.
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 wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and 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 said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is my heir.
Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.
4 And behold, the word of the LORD [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thy heir; but he that shall come forth out of thy own bowels shall be thy heir.
Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.
7 And he said to him, I [am] the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8 And he said, Lord God, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?
At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam?
9 And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.
10 And he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against 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 when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
13 And he said to Abram, Know certainly that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land [that is] not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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 And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
17 And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
18 In that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the 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 Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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 Jebusæos.
