# Genesis 15

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/15

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. After these events, the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am a shield for you, and your reward will be immense.”
2. Abram replied, “Lord Yahweh, what can you give me, when I am going on without children and the one who will inherit my household is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3. Abram went on, “Look, you have not given me any offspring, so someone from my household will inherit from me.”
4. Then suddenly the word of Yahweh came to him: “This man will not inherit from you; someone who comes from your own body will be the one to inherit from you.”
5. He took him outdoors and said, “Look up toward the heavens and count the stars, if you can count them.” Then he told him, “So will your offspring be.”
6. Abram believed Yahweh, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7. He also said to him, “I am Yahweh, who led you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your own possession.”
8. Abram asked, “Lord Yahweh, how am I to know that I will take possession of it?”
9. He told him, “Get me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old she-goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10. Abram brought him all these, split them down the middle, and set each piece across from its partner, though he did not split the birds.
11. Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram chased them off.
12. Just as the sun was setting, a deep sleep came upon Abram, and suddenly terror and a great darkness fell over him.
13. Then Yahweh said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be enslaved and oppressed there for four hundred years.
14. But I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15. You yourself, though, will go to your ancestors in peace; you will be buried at a ripe old age.
16. They will return here in the fourth generation, because the guilt of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17. Once the sun had set and it was pitch dark, suddenly a smoking oven and a flaming torch passed between those pieces.
18. That day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, declaring, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the Euphrates—
19. the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21. the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

## Nearby chapters

[Genesis 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/14.md)
[Genesis 16](https://www.lumin.faith/read/genesis/16.md)

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