창세기(Genesis) 15장

창세기(Genesis) 15장

1. 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. But Abram said, “O Sovereign
LORD, what can you give me since
I remain childiess and the one who
will inherit my estate is Eliezer of
Damascus?”

3. And Abram said, “You have given
me no children; so a servant in my
household will be my heir.”

4. Then the word of the LORD came
to him: “This man will not be your
heir, but a son coming from your
own body will be your heir.”

5. He took him outside and said,
“Look up at the heavens and count
the stars- -if indeed you can count
them.” Then he said to him, “So
shall your offspring be.”

6. Abram believed the LORD, and
he credited it to him as
righteousness.

7. 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. But Abram said, “O Sovereign
LORD, how can I know that I will
gain possession of it?”

9. 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. 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. Then birds of prey came down
on the carcasses, but Abram drove
them away.

12. As the sun was setting, Abram
fell into a deep sleep, and a thick
and dreadful darkness came over
him.

13. Then the LORD said to him,
“Know for certain that your
descendants will be strangers
in a country not their own, and
they will be enslaved and
mistreated four hundred years.

14. But I will punish the nation they
serve as slaves, and afterward they
will come out with great
possessions.

15. You, however, will go to your
fathers in peace and be buried at
a good old age.

16. In the fourth generation your
descendants will come back here,
for the sin of the Amorites has
not yet reached its full measure.”

17. When the sun had set and
darkness had fallen, a smoking
firepot with a blazing torch
appeared and passed between
the pieces.

18. On that day the LORD made a
covenant with Abram and said,
“To your descendants I give this
land, from the river of Egypt to
the great river, the Euphrates-

19. the land of the Kenites,
Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

20. Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,

21. Amorites, Canaanites,
Girgashites and Jebusites.”