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1 his itaque transactis factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens noli timere Abram ego protector tuus sum et merces tua magna nimis
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After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield,your very great reward. ”
2 dixitque Abram Domine Deus quid dabis mihi ego vadam absque liberis et filius procuratoris domus meae iste Damascus Eliezer
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But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 addiditque Abram mihi autem non dedisti semen et ecce vernaculus meus heres meus erit
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And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
4 statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum dicens non erit hic heres tuus sed qui egredietur de utero tuo ipsum habebis heredem
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Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.”
5 eduxitque eum foras et ait illi suspice caelum et numera stellas si potes et dixit ei sic erit semen tuum
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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6 credidit Domino et reputatum est ei ad iustitiam
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Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
7 dixitque ad eum ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldeorum ut darem tibi terram istam et possideres eam
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He also said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it.”
8 at ille ait Domine Deus unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam
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But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9 respondens Dominus sume inquit mihi vaccam triennem et capram trimam et arietem annorum trium turturem quoque et columbam
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So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10 qui tollens universa haec divisit per medium et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit aves autem non divisit
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Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11 descenderuntque volucres super cadavera et abigebat eas Abram
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Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 cumque sol occumberet sopor inruit super Abram et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 dictumque est ad eum scito praenoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua et subicient eos servituti et adfligent quadringentis annis
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Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
14 verumtamen gentem cui servituri sunt ego iudicabo et post haec egredientur cum magna substantia
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15 tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace sepultus in senectute bona
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 generatione autem quarta revertentur huc necdum enim conpletae sunt iniquitates Amorreorum usque ad praesens tempus
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 cum ergo occubuisset sol facta est caligo tenebrosa et apparuit clibanus fumans et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
18 in die illo pepigit Dominus cum Abram foedus dicens semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Aegypti usque ad fluvium magnum flumen Eufraten
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
19 Cineos et Cenezeos et Cedmoneos
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the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 et Hettheos et Ferezeos Rafaim quoque
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 et Amorreos et Chananeos et Gergeseos et Iebuseos
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
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