CHAP. XV.
God promiseth seed to Abram.
His faith, sacrifice and vision.
1 Now when these things
were done, the word of
the Lord came to Abram by
a vision, saying: Fear not Abram,
I am thy protector, and
thy reward exceeding great.
2 And Abram said: Lord
God, what wilt thou give
me? I shall go without children:
and the son of the
steward of my house is this
Damascus Eliezer.
3 And Abram added:
But to me thou hast not given
seed: and lo my servant
born in my house, shall be
my heir.
4 And immediately the
word of the Lord came to
him, saying: He shall not be
thy heir: but he that shall
come out of thy bowels, him
shalt thou have for thy heir.
5 And he brought him
forth abroad, and said to him:
Look up to heaven and number
the stars if thou canst.
And he said to him: So shall
thy seed be.
6 Abram believed God,
and it was reputed to him unto
justice.
7 And he said to him: I
am the Lord who brought
thee out from Ur of the
Chaldees to give thee this
land, and that thou mightest
possess it.
8 But he said: Lord God,
whereby may I know that I
shall possess it?
9 And the Lord answered,
and said: Take me a cow of
three years old, and a she goat
of three years, and a ram of
three years, a turtle also, and
a pigeon.
10 And he took all these,
and divided them in the midst,
and laid the two pieces of each
one against the other: but
the birds he divided not.
11 And the fowls came
down upon the carcasses, and
Abram drove them away.
12 And when the sun was
setting, a deep sleep fell upon
Abram, and a great and
darksome horrour seized upon
him.
13 And it was said unto
him: Know thou before-hand
that thy seed shall be a stranger
-- --
in a land not their own,
and they shall bring them under
bondage, and afflict them
four hundred years.
14 But I will judge the
nation which they shall serve,
and after this they shall come
out with great substance.
15 And thou shalt go to
thy fathers in peace, and be
buried in a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation
they shall return hither:
for as yet the iniquities of the
Amorrhites are not at the full
until this present time.
17 And when the sun was
set, there arose a dark mist,
and there appeared a smoaking
furnace, and a lamp of
fire passing between those divisions.
18 That day God made a
covenant with Abram, saying:
To thy seed will I give
this land from the river of
Egypt even to the great river
Euphrates,
19 The Cineans, and Cenezites,
the Cedmonites,
20 And the Hethites, and
the Pherezites, the Raphaim
also,
21 And the Amorrhites
and the Chananites, and the
Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
