Catholic Public Domain Version
"And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him. "
— Genesis 15:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. ”
“When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.”
“When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.”
“And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.”
“Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.”
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.”
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.
But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.