Genesis 15 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ After these events the word of יהוה  came to Aḇ

² And Aḇ

³ And Aḇ

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.”

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.”

⁶ And he believed in יהוה, and He reckoned it to him for righteousness.

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.”

⁸ And he said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I know that I possess it?”

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.”

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.

¹¹ And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇ

¹² And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Aḇ

¹³ And He said to Aḇ

¹⁴ “But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions.

¹⁵ “Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good old age.

¹⁶ “Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

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.

¹⁸ On the same day יהוה  made a covenant with Aḇ

¹⁹ with the Qĕ

²⁰ and the Ḥ

²¹ and the Amorite, and the Kenaʽ