Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 15:12-19 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

13. And it was said unto him: Know thou beforehand that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land not their own, and they shall bring them under bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

14. But I will judge the nation which they shall serve, and after this they shall come out with great substance.

15. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

16. But in the fourth generation they shall return hither: for as yet the iniquities of the Amorrhites are not at the full until this present time.

17. And when the sun was set, there arose a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.

18. That day God made a covenant with Abram, saying: To thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt even to the great river Euphrates.

19. The Cineans and Cenezites, the Cedmonites,