1 After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.
2 And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.
3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.
4 Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you.
5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
6 And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.
7 And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.
8 And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?
9 And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.
10 All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two.
11 And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.
12 Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.
13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
14 But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.
15 As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
16 And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.
17 Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.
18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
20 And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
21 And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
1 这些事以后， 耶和华的话在异象中临到亚伯兰说： "亚伯兰， 你不要惧怕， 我是你的盾牌； 你的赏赐是很大的。"
2 亚伯兰说： "主耶和华啊， 我一向都没有孩子， 你还能赐给我什么呢？这样， 承受我家业的， 就是大马士革人以利以谢了。"
3 亚伯兰又说： "你既然没有给我后裔， 那生在我家中的人， 就是我的继承人了。"
4 耶和华的话又临到亚伯兰说： "这人必不会作你的继承人； 你亲生的才会是你的继承人。"
5 于是领他到外面去， 说： "你向天观看， 数点众星， 看你能不能把它们数得清楚。"又对他说： "你的后裔将要这样众多。"
6 亚伯兰信耶和华， 耶和华就以此算为他的义了。
7 耶和华又对亚伯兰说： "我是耶和华， 曾经把你从迦勒底的吾珥领出来， 为要把这地赐给你作产业。"
8 亚伯兰说： "主耶和华啊， 我凭什么能知道我必得这地为业呢？"
9 耶和华对他说： "你给我拿一头三岁的母牛， 一只三岁的母山羊， 一只三岁的公绵羊， 一只斑鸠和一只雏鸽。"
10 亚伯兰就把这一切拿了来， 每样都从当中劈开， 一半一半相对摆列； 只是鸟却没有劈开。
11 有鸷鸟下来， 落在这些尸骸上， 亚伯兰就把它们吓走了。
12 日落的时候， 亚伯兰沉沉地睡着了， 忽然有可怕的大黑暗落在他身上。
13 耶和华对亚伯兰说： "你要确实地知道， 你的后裔必在外地寄居， 也必服事那地的人， 那地的人苦待他们四百年。
14 他们所要服事的那国， 我要亲自惩罚。后来他们必带着很多财物， 从那里出来。
15 你必得享长寿， 被人埋葬， 平平安安地回到你列祖那里。
16 到了第四代， 他们必回到这里， 因为亚摩利人的罪孽还没有满盈。"
17 日落天黑的时候， 忽然有冒烟的炉和烧着的火把， 从那些肉块中经过。
18 就在那时候， 耶和华与亚伯兰立约说： "我已经把这地赐给你的后裔了， 就是从埃及河直到幼发拉底河之地；
19 就是基尼人、基尼洗人、甲摩尼人、
20 赫人、比利洗人、利乏音人、
21 亚摩利人、迦南人、革迦撒人、耶布斯人之地。"