Genesis 15:12

New International Reader's Version

As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep. A thick and scary darkness covered him.

Cross References

Genesis 15:11

Then large birds came down to eat the dead bodies of the animals and birds. But Abram chased the large birds away.

Genesis 2:21

So the Lord God caused him to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs. Then the Lord God closed the opening in the man’s side.

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place and stopped for the night. The sun had already set. He took one of the stones there and placed it under his head. Then he lay down to sleep.

Job 33:15

He might speak in a dream or in a vision at night. That’s when people are sound asleep in their beds.

Acts 20:9

A young man named Eutychus was sitting in a window. He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. Sound asleep, Eutychus fell from the third floor. When they picked him up from the ground, he was dead.

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head. Then he and Abishai left. No one saw them. No one knew about what they had done. In fact, no one even woke up. Everyone was sleeping. That’s because the Lord had put them into a deep sleep.