BERESHITH (GENESIS) 15

Gen 15:1 After these events the word of יהוה came to Aḇram in a vision,
saying, “Do not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your reward is
exceedingly great.”
Gen 15:2 And Aḇram said, “Master יהוה, what would You give me, seeing I
go childless, and the heir of my house is Eli‛ezer of Damascus?”
Gen 15:3 And Aḇram said, “See, You have given me no seed, and see, one
born in my house is my heir!”
Gen 15:4 And see, the word of יהוה came to him, saying, “This one is not
your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your heir.”
Gen 15:5 And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the
heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to
him, “So are your seed.”
Gen 15:6 And he believed in יהוה, and He reckoned it to him for
righteousness.
Gen 15:7 And He said to him, “I am יהוה, who brought you out of Ur of the
Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Gen 15:8 And he said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
Gen 15:9 And He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a
three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a
young pigeon.”
Gen 15:10 And he took all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and
placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds.
Gen 15:11 And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇram
drove them away.
Gen 15:12 And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep
sleep fell upon Aḇram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13 And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to
be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall
afflict them four hundred years.
Gen 15:14 “But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and
afterward let them come out with great possessions.
Gen 15:15 “Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are
to be buried at a good old age.
Gen 15:16 “Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the
crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
Gen 15:17 And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that
see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
Gen 15:18 On the same day יהוה made a covenant with Aḇram, saying, “I
have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great
river, the River Euphrates,
Gen 15:19 with the Qĕynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qaḏmonite,
Gen 15:20 and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha’im,
Gen 15:21 and the Amorite, and the Kena‛anite, and the Girgashite, and the
Yeḇusite.”