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 dixitque Abram Domine Deus quid dabis mihi
ego vadam absque liberis
et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer
3 addiditque Abram mihi autem non dedisti semen
et ecce vernaculus meus heres meus erit
4 statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum dicens
non erit hic heres tuus
sed qui egredietur de utero tuo ipsum habebis heredem
5 eduxitque eum foras et ait illi
suspice caelum et numera stellas si potes
et dixit ei sic erit semen tuum
6 credidit Domino
et reputatum est ei ad iustitiam
7 dixitque ad eum ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldeorum
ut darem tibi terram istam et possideres eam
8 at ille ait Domine Deus
unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam
9 respondens Dominus
sume inquit mihi vaccam triennem
et capram trimam et arietem annorum trium
turturem quoque et columbam
10 qui tollens universa haec divisit per medium
et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit
aves autem non divisit
11 descenderuntque volucres super cadavera et abigebat eas Abram
12 cumque sol occumberet sopor inruit super Abram
et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum
13 dictumque est ad eum
scito praenoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non
sua
et subicient eos servituti et adfligent quadringentis annis
14 verumtamen gentem cui servituri sunt ego iudicabo
et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia
15 tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace sepultus in senectute bona
16 generatione autem quarta revertentur huc
necdum enim conpletae sunt iniquitates Amorreorum usque ad praesens
tempus
17 cum ergo occubuisset sol facta est caligo tenebrosa
et apparuit clibanus fumans
et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas
18 in die illo pepigit Dominus cum Abram foedus dicens
semini tuo dabo terram hanc
a fluvio Aegypti usque ad fluvium magnum flumen Eufraten
19 Cineos et Cenezeos et Cedmoneos
20 et Hettheos et Ferezeos Rafaim quoque
21 et Amorreos et Chananeos et Gergeseos et Iebuseos
1 After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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? 3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. 4 And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. 6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7 And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety 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; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.