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15:1
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这事以后，耶和华在异象中有话对亚伯兰说：「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 Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.
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15:2
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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。」
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And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
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15:3
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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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15:4
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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 Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
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15:5
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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 number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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15:6
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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 Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
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15:7
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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。」
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And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
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15:8
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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, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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15:9
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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 a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
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15:10
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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 him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.
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15:11
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有鸷鸟下来，落在那死畜的肉上，亚伯兰就把他吓飞了。
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And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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15:12
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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, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
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15:13
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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 sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
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15:14
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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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15:15
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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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But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
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15:16
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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。」
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And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
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15:17
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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。
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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
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15:18
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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 that day Jehovah 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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15:19
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就是基尼人、基尼洗人、甲摩尼人、
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the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
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15:20
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赫人、比利洗人、利乏音人、
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and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
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15:21
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亚摩利人、迦南人、革迦撒人、耶布斯人之地。」
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and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
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