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

Gen 15:1And 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.
Gen 15:2And 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.
Gen 15:3And Abram said, I am grieved since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born servant shall succeed me.
Gen 15:4And 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.
Gen 15:5And 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.
Gen 15:6 [fn] And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
Gen 15:7And 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.
Gen 15:8And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Gen 15:9And 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.
Gen 15:10So 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.
Gen 15:11And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram [fn]sat down by them.
Gen 15:12And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
Gen 15:13And 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.
Gen 15:14And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much [fn]property.
Gen 15:15But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.
Gen 15:16And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.
Gen 15:17And 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.
Gen 15:18In 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.
Gen 15:19The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans,
Gen 15:20and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim,
Gen 15:21and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.
BES Footnotes
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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