Chapter 15
15:1 After these things the word (pithgama) of the Lord came to Abram in prophecy, saying, Fear not, Abraham: My Word (Memra) shall be thy strength, and thy exceeding great reward.

15:2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt Thou give me, and I go without a child: and this son of business (bar phargama) who is in My house is the Damasekah Elieser?

15:3 And Abram said, Behold, Thou hast not given me a child, and, behold, the son of my house is my heir.

15:4 And, lo, the word (pithgama) of the Lord was with him, saying, This shall not be thy heir, but a son whom thou shalt beget will be thine heir.

15:5 And He led him without, and said, Behold now the heavens, and number the stars, if thou art able to number them; and He said to him, So will be thy sons.

15:6 And he believed in the Word of the Lord, (Memra da Yeya,) and He reckoned it to him unto justification.

15:7 And He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought thee forth from Ura of the Kasdaee, to give thee this land to inherit it.

15:8 And he said, Lord God, by what may I know that I shall inherit it?

15:9 And He Said to him, Bring Me Three calves, and three goats, and three rams, and a turtle dove, and the young of a pigeon.

15:10 And he brought before Him all these. And he divided them equally, and set the divisions of a division against his fellow; but the birds he did not divide.

15:11 And the fowl descended upon the divisions, and Abram drave them away.

15:12 And it was sunset, and sleep fell upon Abram: and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

15:13 And He said unto Abram, Knowing thou shalt know that thy sons will be sojourners (or aliens) in a land now theirs, and they will serve among them; and they will afflict them four hundred years.

15:14And the people whom they will serve I will judge, and afterwards they shall go forth with much substance.

15:15 And thou shalt be gathered to thy fathers in peace, and shall be buried in good old age.

15:16 And in the forth age (or generation) they will return hither; because not (yet) complete is the guilt of the Amoraah.

15:17 And it was at the going away of the sun, and there was darkness.

15:18 And behold a furnace that burned, and a flame of fire which passed between those divisions.

15:19 In that day the Lord compacted with Abram a covenant, saying, To thy sons will I give this land; from the river of Mizraim unto the great river, the river Pherat, the Shalmaee, and the Kenizaee, and the Kadmonaee,

15:20 and the Hittaee, and the Pherizaee, and the Gibbaraee,

15:21 and the Amoraee, and the Kenaanae, and the Girgashaee, and the Yebusaee.