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。"

1 After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I [am] a shield to thee, thy reward [is] exceeding great.`2 And Abram saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.`3 And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.`4 And lo, the word of Jehovah [is] unto him, saying, `This [one] doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;`5 and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;` and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.`6 And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.7 And He saith unto him, `I [am] Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;`8 and he saith, `Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?`9 And He saith unto him, `Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;`10 and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided;11 and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.12 And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;13 and He saith to Abram, `knowing -- know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,14 and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;15 and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;16 and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.`17 And it cometh to pass -- the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been -- and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.18 In that day hath Jehovah made with Abram a covenant, saying, `To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Phrat,19 with the Kenite, and 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.`