Genesis

After these words the word of [the] lord came towards Abram in a vision, saying: "Fear not, Abram, I will shield you. Your wage will be exceedingly much."

And Abram says: "Master lord, what will you give to me, whereas I am departing childless, but the son of my native-born female slave Masek, this Eliézer of Damaskos [is my heir]."

And Abram said: "Since to me you gave no seed, my native-born [servant] will be heir to me.

And immediately [the] voice of [the] lord came to him, saying: "This one will not be heir to you. Another will come forth from out of you: this [one] will be heir to you."

And he led him outside, and said to him: "Now look up to heaven, and count the stars, if you are be able to count them." And he said: "Thus will be your seed."

And Abram trusted the Theos, and it was concluded him [to be] into righteousness.

And he said to him: "I [am] the Theos, the [one] leading you from out of [the] region of the Chaldaion, so as to give to you this land to inherit."

And he said: "Master lord, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

And he said to him: "Take for me a heifer being three years old, and a goat being three years old, and a ram being three years old, and a turledove and a pigeon."

And he took to himself all these. And he divided them in the middle. And he placed them facing one other. But the birds he did not divide.

And birds came down upon the bodies, upon the divided parts of them. And Abram sat down with them.

And around [the] descent of Helios a trance fell upon Abram. And behold: a great dark fear fell upon him.

And it was said to Abram: "[In] knowing you will know that your seed will be a sojourner in a land not [their] own. And they will enslave them, and will afflict them, and humble them, four hundred years.

And I will judge the nation whichever they may be slave to. And after this, they shall come forth to here with much belongings.

But you shall depart to your fathers with peace, being buried in a good old age.

And [the] fourth generation shall return to here, for the sins of the Amorraion have not yet been filled up unto the present."

And when the Helios was in descent, a flame came, and behold: a smoking oven and lamps of fire, which went through in the midst of these pieces.

In that day [the] lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: "[To] your seed I will give this land, from the river of Aigyptos to the river of the great Euphrates, [including]

the Kenaion, and the Kenezaion, and the Kedmonaion,

and the Chettaion, and the Pherezaion, and the Raphaeim,

and the Amorraion, and the Chana¬naion, and the Evaion, and the Gergesaion, and the Iebousaion.