The Bible – Modern Translation/Explanation
By zevi770 · February 13, 2019
Chapter 15
- After the above mentioned episodes, the word of God came to Avram in a vision, saying, “Fear not Avram, for I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great.”
- But Avram replied, “God my Lord, what (is the value) in what you can give, for I am childless and the steward of my household is Eliezer from Damascus.”
- And Avram said, “But to me you have not given children, and therefore one of my household will inherent.”
- Then the words of God came to him saying, “This, will not inherit you – rather, one who will go from your loins.”
- And he took him outside and told him “Gaze please at the heavens and count the stars – Can you??!” And he said to him “So, many, will be your children.”
- And he trusted in G-d – and God considered (this trust) as a merit.
- And God said to him – “I am God who took you out of the land of Ur Casdim, to give you this land to inherit.”
- And he said “God my Lord, how will I know that I will inherit it.”
- And he said to him – “Take for me, three young cows and three goats, and three rams, and a turtle dove, and a young bird.”
- And he took for God all of these, and he split them in half, and he placed each part opposite its other half, and the bird, he didn’t (split.)
- And the vultures descended on the carcasses and Avram chased them away.
- And the sun began to set, and a deep sleep fell upon Avram, and a deep dark dear fear fell upon him.
- And he said to Avram, “You should know that strangers will be your children, in a foreign land, and they will enslave and torture them for four hundred years.
- Now the nation that will enslave them, I will judge, and afterwards they will leave with great wealth.
- And you will die in peace – you will be buried at a ripe old age.
- The fourth generation will return here – for the sin of the Amorites (whose land will be repossesed) will not have been completed yet.”
- And the sun set and it was dark, and a pillar of ash and fire passed between the (animal) parts.
- That day, God made a pact with Avram saying – “To your children I have given this land – from the river of Egypt, until the great Euphrates river.
- The Keini, The Kinizi, The Kadmoini.
- The Chiti, The Pirizi, The Rifaim.
- The Emoiri, The Kinani, The Girgashi, And The Yivusi.”