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Genesis 15 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:2 - And Abram said, Master and Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus is mine heir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:4 - And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, [fn] Thus shall thy seed be.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:6 - [fn] And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram [fn]sat down by them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:12 - And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much [fn]property.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:15 - But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:16 - And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:17 - And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:18 - In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:19 - The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:20 - and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:21 - and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
BES Footnotes
Rom. 4:18.
Rom. 4:3.
Or, drove them away. The LXX. seem to have read ישב for שוב
Lit. baggage.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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