Feabhra 24, 2013, An Chéad Léamh

Geineasas 15: 5-12, 17-18

 

15:5 And he brought him outside, ocus adubairt ris, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
15:6 Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
15:7 Agus adubhairt sé ris, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”
15:8 Ach dúirt sé, “A Thiarna Dia, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”
15:9 And the Lord responded by saying: “Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-dove and a pigeon.”
15:10 Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
15:11 And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
15:12 And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
15:17 Ansin, nuair a bhí an ghrian curtha, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
15:18 On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, ag rá: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates:

 

 

 

 


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