创世记 15
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
神与亚伯兰立约
15 这些事以后，耶和华的话在异象中临到亚伯兰说：
“亚伯兰，你不要惧怕，
我是你的盾牌；
你的赏赐是很大的。”
2 亚伯兰说：“主耶和华啊，我一向都没有孩子，你还能赐给我甚么呢？这样，承受我家业的，就是大马士革人以利以谢了。” 3 亚伯兰又说：“你既然没有给我后裔，那生在我家中的人，就是我的继承人了。” 4 耶和华的话又临到亚伯兰说：“这人必不会作你的继承人；你亲生的才会是你的继承人。” 5 于是领他到外面去，说：“你向天观看，数点众星，看你能不能把它们数得清楚。”又对他说：“你的后裔将要这样众多。” 6 亚伯兰信耶和华，耶和华就以此算为他的义了。 7 耶和华又对亚伯兰说：“我是耶和华，曾经把你从迦勒底的吾珥领出来，为要把这地赐给你作产业。” 8 亚伯兰说：“主耶和华啊，我凭甚么能知道我必得这地为业呢？” 9 耶和华对他说：“你给我拿一头三岁的母牛犊，一只三岁的母山羊，一只三岁的公绵羊，一只斑鸠和一只雏鸽。” 10 亚伯兰就把这一切拿了来，每样都从当中劈开，一半一半相对摆列；只是鸟却没有劈开。 11 有鸷鸟下来，落在这些尸骸上，亚伯兰就把牠们吓走了。
12 日落的时候，亚伯兰沉沉地睡着了，忽然有可怕的大黑暗落在他身上。 13 耶和华对亚伯兰说：“你要确实地知道，你的后裔必在外地寄居，也必服事那地的人，那地的人苦待他们四百年。 14 他们所要服事的那国，我要亲自惩罚。后来他们必带着很多财物，从那里出来。 15 你必得享长寿，被人埋葬，平平安安地回到你列祖那里。 16 到了第四代，他们必回到这里，因为亚摩利人的罪孽还没有满盈。” 17 日落天黑的时候，忽然有冒烟的炉和烧着的火把，从那些肉块中经过。 18 就在那时候，耶和华与亚伯兰立约说：
“我已经把这地赐给你的后裔了，
就是从埃及河直到幼发拉底河之地；
19 就是基尼人、基尼洗人、甲摩尼人、 20 赫人、比利洗人、利乏音人、 21 亚摩利人、迦南人、革迦撒人、耶布斯人之地。”
Genesis 15
Good News Translation
God's Covenant with Abram
15 After this, Abram had a vision and heard the Lord say to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward.”
2 But Abram answered, “Sovereign Lord, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.[a] 3 You have given me no children, and one of my slaves will inherit my property.”
4 Then he heard the Lord speaking to him again: “This slave Eliezer will not inherit your property; your own son will be your heir.” 5 (A)The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”
6 (B)Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him.
7 Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
8 But Abram asked, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?”
9 He answered, “Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.” 10 Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds. 11 Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12 (C)When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him. 13 (D)The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years. 14 (E)But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them. 15 You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried. 16 It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”
17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals. 18 (F)Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River, 19 including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Footnotes
- Genesis 15:2 My … Damascus; Hebrew unclear.
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