15:1 His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens : Noli timere, Abram : ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.
15:1 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.
15:2 Dixitque Abram : Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi ? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
15:2 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.
15:3 Addiditque Abram : Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.
15:3 And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.
15:4 Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens : Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.
15:4 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.
15:5 Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi : Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei : Sic erit semen tuum.
15:5 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.
15:6 Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.
15:6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
15:7 Dixitque ad eum : Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
15:7 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.
15:8 At ille ait : Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam ?
15:8 But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
15:9 Et respondens Dominus : Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.
15:9 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.
15:10 Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit ; aves autem non divisit.
15:10 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.
15:11 Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
15:11 And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
15:12 Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
15:12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.
15:13 Dictumque est ad eum : Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subjicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
15:13 And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand 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.
15:14 Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo : et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15:14 But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.
15:15 Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
15:15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.
15:16 Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc : necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
15:16 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.
15:17 Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
15:17 And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
15:18 In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens : Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
15:18 That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.
15:19 Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
15:19 The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,
15:20 et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
15:20 And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also,
15:21 et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.
15:21 And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.