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Genesis 15:8-10
New English Translation

8 But[a] Abram[b] said, “O Sovereign Lord,[c] by what[d] can I know that I am to possess it?”

9 The Lord[e] said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” 10 So Abram[f] took all these for him and then cut them in two[g] and placed each half opposite the other,[h] but he did not cut the birds in half.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:8 tn Here the vav carries adversative force and is translated “but.”
  2. Genesis 15:8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Genesis 15:8 tn See note on the phrase “Sovereign Lord” in 15:2.
  4. Genesis 15:8 tn Or “how.”
  5. Genesis 15:9 tn Heb “He”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  6. Genesis 15:10 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  7. Genesis 15:10 tn Heb “in the middle.”
  8. Genesis 15:10 tn Heb “to meet its neighbor.”sn For discussion of this ritual see G. F. Hasel, “The Meaning of the Animal Rite in Genesis 15, ” JSOT 19 (1981): 61-78.
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