第15章
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* 第 15 章
* 上帝与亚伯兰立约
* 上帝与亚伯兰立约
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* 创15:1 这事以后，耶和华在异像中有话对亚伯兰说：“亚伯兰，你不要惧怕！我是你的盾牌，必大大的赏赐你。”
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*After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
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* 创15:2 亚伯兰说：“主耶和华啊，我既无子，你还赐我什么呢？并且要承受我家业的是大马色人以利以谢。”
§5
*And Abram said, LORD God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
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* 创15:3 亚伯兰又说：“你没有给我儿子；那生在我家中的人就是我的后嗣。”
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*And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
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* 创15:4 耶和华又有话对他说：“这人必不成为你的后嗣；你本身所生的才成为你的后嗣。”
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*And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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* 创15:5 于是领他走到外边，说：“你向天观看，数算众星，能数得过来吗？”又对他说：“你的后裔将要如此。”
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*And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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* 创15:6 亚伯兰信耶和华，耶和华就以此为他的义。
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*And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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* 创15:7 耶和华又对他说：“我是耶和华，曾领你出了迦勒底的吾珥，为要将这地赐你为业。”
§15
*And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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* 创15:8 亚伯兰说：“主耶和华啊，我怎能知道必得这地为业呢？”
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*And he said, LORD God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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* 创15:9 他说：“你为我取一只三年的母牛，一只三年的母山羊，一只三年的公绵羊，一只斑鸠，一只雏鸽。”
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*And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
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* 创15:10 亚伯兰就取了这些来，每样劈开，分成两半，一半对着一半地摆列，只有鸟没有劈开。
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*And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
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* 创15:11 有鸷鸟下来，落在那死畜的肉上，亚伯兰就把它吓飞了。
§23
*And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
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* 创15:12 日头正落的时候，亚伯兰沉沉的睡了；忽然有惊人的大黑暗落在他身上。
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*And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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* 创15:13 耶和华对亚伯兰说：“你要的确知道，你的后裔必寄居别人的地，又服事那地的人；那地的人要苦待他们四百年。
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*And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not their's, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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* 创15:14 并且他们所要服事的那国，我要惩罚，后来他们必带着许多财物从那里出来。
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*And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
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* 创15:15 但你要享大寿数，平平安安的归到你列祖那里，被人埋葬。
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*And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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* 创15:16 到了第四代，他们必回到此地，因为亚摩利人的罪孽还没有满盈。”
§33
*But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
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* 创15:17 日落天黑，不料有冒烟的炉并烧着的火把从那些肉块中经过。
§35
*And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
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* 创15:18 当那日，耶和华与亚伯兰立约，说：“我已赐给你的后裔，从埃及河直到伯拉大河之地，
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*In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
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* 创15:19 就是基尼人、基尼洗人、甲摩尼人、
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*The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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* 创15:20 赫人、比利洗人、利乏音人、
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*And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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* 创15:21 亚摩利人、迦南人、革迦撒人、耶布斯人之地。”
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*And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.