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C O V E N A N T
CHAPTER 14:
Yahuah’s Covenant with
Abram (14:1-20; cf. Gen. 15)
1 After these things, in the
fourth year of this week, on the
For 1-6 cf. new moon of the third month,
Gn. 15:1-6
the word of Yahuah came to
Abram in a dream, saying:
“Fear not, Abram; I am thy
defender, and thy reward will
be exceeding great.” 2 And
he said: “Yahuah, Yahuah,
what wilt thou give me, seeing
I go hence childless, and the
Wrongly
taken as a son of Mâsêq, the son of my
proper name handmaid, is the Dammasek
(cf. RX.). So
LXX. Eliezer: he will be my heir,
and to me thou hast given no
seed.” 3 And He said unto
him: “This (man) will not be
thy heir, but one that will come
out of thine own bowels; he
will be thine heir.” 4 And He
brought him forth abroad, and
said unto him: “Look toward
heaven and number the stars,
if thou art able to number
them.” 5 And he looked
toward heaven, and beheld
the stars. And He said unto
him: “So shall thy seed be.”
6 And he believed in Yahuah,
and it was counted to him for
righteousness. 7 And He said
unto him: “I am Yahuah that
brought thee out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to give thee the land
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of the Canaanites to possess it
Cf. Gn. 15:7
for ever; and I shall be Elohim
unto thee and to thy seed after
thee.” 8 And he said: “Yahuah,
Yahuah, whereby shall I know For 8-9 cf.
that I shall inherit (it)?” 9 And Gn. 15:8-9
he said unto him: “Take Me
an heifer of three years, and
a goat of three years, and a
15 =
sheep of three years, and a Sivan
Shavuot.
Day of
turtle-dove, and a pigeon.”
Covenant
10 And he took all these in the Renewal.
Cf. 5:32-6:2
middle of the month; and he
Cf. Gn. 14:13
dwelt at the oak of Mamre,
which is near Hebron.
11 And he built there an altar,
and sacrificed all these; and
he poured their blood upon
the altar, and divided them in For 11-12 cf.
the midst, and laid them over Gn.15:10-11
Cf. Gn. xv.
against each other; but the 13, but Exod.
xii. 40 gives
birds divided he not.
the number
Tradition
12 And birds came down 430.
assumes that
number
upon the pieces, and Abram the
includes the
of the
drove them away, and did sojourn
Patriarchs
not suffer the birds to touch inOurCanaan.
text
them. 13 And it came to pass, reckons the
period from
when the sun had set, that an the birth of
Isaac (when
ecstasy fell upon Abram, and Abraham was
100 years
lo! an horror of great darkness old). St. Paul
iii. 16fell upon him, and it was said (Gal.
17) reckons
years
unto Abram: “Know of a 430
from the
surety that thy seed shall be announcement.
a stranger in a land (that is) According
to Targ.
not theirs, and they will bring Ps.-Jon. on
Exod. xii. 40
them into bondage, and afflict f., the odd 30
years cover
them four hundred years.
the period
between the
14 And the nation also to announceand
whom they will be in bondage ment
Isaac’s birth.
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