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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 15 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Genesis 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/14.htm" title="Genesis 14">◄</a> Genesis 15 <a href="../genesis/16.htm" title="Genesis 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">God’s Covenant with Abram<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And after these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram, I shield thee, thy reward shall be very great.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Abram said, Master <i>and</i> Lord, what wilt thou give me? whereas I am departing without a child, but the son of Masek my home-born female slave, this Eliezer of Damascus <i>is mine heir.</i> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And Abram said, <i>I am grieved</i> since thou hast given me no seed, but my home-born <i>servant</i> shall succeed me. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And immediately there was a voice of the Lord to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come out of thee shall be thine heir. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to number them fully, and he said, Thus shall thy seed be. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.<p> <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">God Confirms His Promise<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he said, Master <i>and</i> Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he said to him, Take for me an heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And birds came down upon the bodies, <i>even</i> upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their won, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much property. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The Kenites, and the Kenezites, and the Kedmoneans, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Raphaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Evites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>