| | 1 | 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，必大大地赏赐你。
After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward."
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| | 2 | 亚伯兰说，主耶和华阿，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。
But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?"
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| | 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。
And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir."
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| | 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。
Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
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| | 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。
He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
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| | 6 | 亚伯兰信耶和华，耶和华就以此为他的义。
Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
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| | 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。
He also said to him, "I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to take possession of it."
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| | 8 | 亚伯兰说，主耶和华阿，我怎能知道必得这地为业呢？
But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?"
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| | 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。
So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
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| | 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。
Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
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| | 11 | 有鸷鸟下来，落在那死畜的肉上，亚伯兰就把它吓飞了。
Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
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| | 12 | 日头正落的时候，亚伯兰沉沉地睡了。忽然有惊人的大黑暗落在他身上。
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
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| | 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。
Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
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| | 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。
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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| | 15 | 但你要享大寿数，平平安安地归到你列祖那里，被人埋葬。
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
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| | 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。
In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."
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| | 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。
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
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| | 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，
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates--
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| | 19 | 就是基尼人，基尼洗人，甲摩尼人，
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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| | 20 | 赫人，比利洗人，利乏音人，
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
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| | 21 | 亚摩利人，迦南人，革迦撒人，耶布斯人之地。
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."
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