Gênesis 15

1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."

2 Abram said, "Lord*15:2 The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai". Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 Abram said, "Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir." 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So your offspring will be." 6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness. 7 He said to Abram, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

9 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." 10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds. 11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him. 13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years. 14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth; 15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age. 16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full." 17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

He Kawenata a Ihowā ki a Āperama

1 Muri iho i ēnei mea ka puta moemoeā mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a Āperama, ka mea:

"Kaua e wehi, e Āperama.

Ko ahau tōu whakangungu rākau,

tōu utu nui whakaharahara."

2 Nā, ka mea a Āperama, "E te Ariki, e Ihowā, ko te aha e hōmai e koe ki ahau, e haere urikore nei ahau, ā, ko te taunga o tōku whare hei tēnei Eriētera o Ramahiku?" 3 I mea anō a Āperama, "Titiro hoki, kāhore nei i hōmai e koe he uri ki ahau; ā, ākuanei, kei tētahi tamaiti i whānau ki tōku whare te mahuetanga iho o ōku taonga."

4 Nā, kua puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki a ia, i mea ia, "E kore e mahue iho ōu taonga mō tēnā; engari, ka mahue iho mō tētahi e puta mai i roto i ōu whēkau." 5 Nā, ka kawea ia e ia ki waho, ā, ka mea mai, "Tēnā tirohia atu te rangi, taua hoki ngā whetū, ki te taea ēnā e koe te tatau." Ā, ka mea ia ki a ia, "Ka pērā tōu uri."

6 I whakapono hoki ia ki a Ihowā, ā, ka whakairia ki a ia hei tika.

7 I mea anō ia ki a ia, "Ko Ihowā ahau, nāna nei koe i kawe mai i Uru o ngā Karari, kia hoatu ai ki a koe tēnei whenua hei kāinga pūmau."

8 Anō rā ko ia, "E te Ariki, e Ihowā, mā te aha ka mōhio ai ahau ka riro mai tēnei i ahau?"

9 Nā, ka mea ia ki a ia, "Tīkina tētahi kau māku, hei te tau toru, me tētahi koati uha, hei te tau toru, me tētahi hipi toa, hei te tau toru, me tētahi kūkupa, me tētahi pī kūkupa."

10 Nā, tīkina ana e ia aua mea katoa, ā, tapahia ana i waenganui, whakatakotoria ana ngā wāhi kia rite mai ki ā rāua whakawahi; ko ngā manu ia kīhai i tapahia e ia. 11 Ā, ka rere iho ngā manu ki ngā tinana, ka āia atu e Āperama.

12 Nā, i te rerenga o te rā, ka parangia a Āperama e te moe; nā, ko te whakawehi o te pōuri kerekere e tau iho ana ki a ia. 13 Ā, ka mea ia ki a Āperama, "Kia tino mōhio koe, ka noho manene tōu uri ki tētahi whenua ehara nei i a rātou, ā, ka mahi ki a rātou; ā, e whā rau ngā tau e whakatupuria kinotia ai rātou. 14 Ka whakawākia anō e ahau te iwi e whakamahia ai rātou, ā muri iho ka puta mai rātou me ngā taonga maha. 15 Ko koe ia ka haere mārie ki ōu mātua; ka pai tōu koroheketanga, ā, tanumia noatia koe. 16 Kei te whā ia o ngā whakatupuranga ka hoki mai rātou ki konei nō te mea kāhore anō kia tutuki noa te hara o ngā Amori."

17 Nā, i te tōnga o te rā, nō ka pōuri, nā, ko te oumu paowa, me te rama e kā ana, e tika ana i waenganui o aua porohanga. 18 I taua rangi anō ka whakaritea e Ihowā he kawenata ki a Āperama, ka mea ia, "Ka hoatu e ahau tēnei whenua ki tōu uri, mai rā anō o te awa o Īhipa, ā tae noa ki te awa nui, ki te awa, ki Uparati; 19 ngā Keni, ngā Keniti, ngā Karamoni, 20 ngā Hiti, ngā Perihi, ngā Repaima, 21 ngā Amori, ngā Kanaani, ngā Kirikahi, me ngā Iepuhi."