Yubalym (Jubilee) — 14

1 After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the New Moon of the third month, the Dabar of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH came to Abram in a dream, saying: Fear not, Abram; I am your defender, and your reward will be exceedingly great.

2 And Abram said: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH my ALUAH what will you give me, seeing I go hence childless, and the son of Masaq, the son of my handmaid, is the Damascan Aliy'azar: he will be my heir, and to me you have given no seed.

3 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar unto Abram: This man will not be your heir, but one that will come out of your own generation; he will be your heir.

4 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH brought Abram forth abroad and said unto him: Look toward Shamaym and number the stars if you are able to number them.

5 And Abram looked toward Shamaym and beheld the stars. And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar unto Abram: So shall your seed be.

6 And Abram believed in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, and it was counted to Abram for righteousness

7 And he said unto him: I am 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH that brought you out of Ur of the Kasdiym, to give you the land of the Kana'anym to possess it forever; and I will be 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH unto you and to your seed after you.

8 And Abram said: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH my ALUAH, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

9 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar unto Abram: Take me a heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtledove, and a pigeon.

10 And Abram took all these in the middle of the month, and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Habrun.

11 And he built there an altar and sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the midst, and laid them over against each other; but the birds divided he not.

12 And birds came down upon the pieces, and Abram drove them away, and did not suffer the birds to touch them.

13 And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and lo! a horror of great darkness fell upon him, and it was said unto Abram: Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.

14 And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage will I judge, and after that they shall come forth thence with much substance.

15 And you shall go to your fathers in Shalum and be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall return hither; for the iniquity of the Amurym is not yet full.

17 And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set; and there was a flame, and behold! a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed between the pieces.

18 And on that day 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH cut a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed will I give this land, from the river of Mitsrayim unto the great river, the river Parath, the Qayniyiym, the Qanizziym, the Qadmuniym, the Parizziym, and the Rapha'iym, the Paquriym, and the Chibbym, and the Amurym, and the Kana'anym, and the Girgashym, and the Yabucym.

19 And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerings, and their drink offerings, and the fire devoured them.

20 And on that day, covenant was established with Abram, according as 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH had covenanted with Nuah in this month; and Abram renewed the feast and ordinance for himself forever.

21 And Abram rejoiced and made all these things known to Sarai his woman; and he believed that he would have seed, but she did not bear.

22 And Sarai advised her man Abram, and said unto him: Go in unto Ha'gar, my Mitzraym maid: it may be that I shall build up seed unto you by her.

23 And Abram hearkened unto the voice of Sarai his woman and said unto her: Do so. And Sarai took Ha'gar, her maid, the Mitzraym, and gave her to Abram, her man, to be his woman.

24 And Abram went in unto her, and she conceived and bore him a son, and he called his name Yishma'al, in the fifth year of this week; and this was the eighty sixth year in the life of Abram.