Genesis 15:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.

Cross References

Genesis 15:11

And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

Genesis 2:21

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

Genesis 28:11

He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds,

Acts 20:9

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, began to sink off into a deep sleep while Paul talked still longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell to the ground three floors below and was picked up dead.

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear that was at Saul’s head and the water jar, and they went away. No one saw it or knew it, nor did anyone awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.