Genesis 15 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abram Promised a Son

(Heb 11:8–10 )

Gen 15:1After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

Gen 15:2

Gen 15:2And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

Gen 15:3

Gen 15:3And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

Gen 15:4

Gen 15:4And behold, the word of Jehovah came to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.

Gen 15:5

Gen 15:5And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

Gen 15:6

Gen 15:6And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Gen 15:7

Gen 15:7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

Gen 15:8

Gen 15:8And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

Gen 15:9

Gen 15:9And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

Gen 15:10

Gen 15:10And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.

Gen 15:11

Gen 15:11And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.

Gen 15:12

Gen 15:12And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

Gen 15:13

Gen 15:13And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land that is not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Gen 15:14

Gen 15:14But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.

Gen 15:15

Gen 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

Gen 15:16

Gen 15:16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

Gen 15:17

Gen 15:17And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

Gen 15:18

Gen 15:18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

Gen 15:19

Gen 15:19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

Gen 15:20

Gen 15:20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

Gen 15:21

Gen 15:21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 15 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abram Promised a Son

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