Catholic Public Domain Version
"And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. "
— Genesis 15:11, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.”
“And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. ”
“The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.”
“When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.”
“And the fowls came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.”
“And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away.”
“And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.”
But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”
And the Lord responded by saying: “Take for me a cow of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, also a turtle-dove and a pigeon.”
Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
And it was said to him: “Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years.
Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.