Genesis 15 — OURB

15Verse 1After these things Davar Yahweh [Word of He sustains breathing] came to Avram [Exalted father] in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Avram [Exalted father]. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”^{Verse 2}Avram [Exalted father] said, “'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh], what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus [Bucket of blood]?”^{Verse 3}Avram [Exalted father] said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”^{Verse 4}Behold, Adonai’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.”^{Verse 5}Adonai brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars,⁺if you are able to count them.” He said to Avram [Exalted father], “So will your offspring be.”^{+Verse 6}He trusted in Adonai , who credited it to him for righteousness.⁺(6)^{Verse 7}He said to Avram [Exalted father], “I am Adonai who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”^{Verse 8}He said, “'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh], how will I know that I will inherit it?”^{Verse 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.”^{Verse 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.^{Verse 11}The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram [Exalted father] drove them away.^{Verse 12}When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram [Exalted father]. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.^{Verse 13}He said to Avram [Exalted father], “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.^{Verse 14}I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,^{+Verse 15}but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.^{Verse 16}In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the depravity (moral evil) of the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers] is not yet full.”^{Verse 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.^{Verse 18}In that day Adonai made a covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with Avram [Exalted father], saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt [Abode of slavery] to the great river, the river Euphrates [Fruitful]:^{Verse 19}the Kenites [Descendants of Acquisition], the Kenezites [Descendants of Purchase], the Kadmonites [Descendants of Ancients, Chiefs],^{Verse 20}the Hittites [Descendants of Trembling fear], the Perizzites [Descendants of Belonging to village], the Rephaim [Descendants of Terrible one],^{Verse 21}the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled], the Girgashites [Descendants of Who arrives from pilgrimage], and the Jebusites [Descendants of Thresher].”