15:1. Now when these things were done, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: Fear not, Abram, I am thy protector, and thy reward exceeding great. 15:2. And Abram said: Lord God, what wilt thou give me? I shall go without children: and the son of the steward of my house is this Damascus Eliezer. 15:3. And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir. 15:4. And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir. 15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. 15:6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice. 15:7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it. 15:8. But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it? 15:9. And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon. 15:10. And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not. 15:11. And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 15:12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him. 15:13. And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years. 15:14. But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance. 15:15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. 15:16. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time. 15:17. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace, and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions. 15:18. That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river to Egypt even to the great river Euphrates. 15:19. The Cineans, and Cenezites, the Cedmonites, 15:20. And the Hethites, and the Pherezites, the Raphaim also, 15:21. And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites. Genesis Chapter 16 Abram marrieth Agar, who bringeth forth Ismael. 16:1. Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had brought forth no children: but having a handmaid, an Egyptian, named Agar, 16:2. She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,