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Genesis 15 Free Bible Version (Spanish)
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1 Después de todo esto, Dios habló con Abram en una visión, y le dijo: “¡No tengas miedo, Abram! ¡Yo soy tu protector y tu gran recompensa!”
1 After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
2 Pero Abram respondió: “Señor Dios, ¿de qué me beneficiará cualquier cosa que me des? No tengo hijos, y el único heredero de todo lo que tengo es Eliezer de Damasco”.
2 Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
3 Y Abram continuó, expresando tu queja: “¡Mira, no me has dado hijos, y me toca darle toda mi herencia a un sirviente de mi casa!”
3 Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”
4 Pero entonces el Señor le dijo: “Este hombre no será tu heredero. Tu heredero será tu propio hijo”.
4 Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”
5 Entonces el Señor llevó a Abram afuera y le dijo: “Mira al cielo, y dime si puedes contar las estrellas. ¡Así será la cantidad de descendientes que tendrás!”
5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
6 Y Abram creyó en lo que el Señor le dijo, y el Señor concluyó que Abram y él tenían una relación buena.
6 He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
7 El Señor también le dijo: “Yo soy el Señor, que te saqué de Ur de los caldeos para darte esta tierra”.
7 He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”
8 “Pero Señor, ¿cómo podré estar seguro de que es mía?” preguntó Abram.
8 He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”
9 Entonces el Señor me dijo: “Tráeme una vaca, una cabra y un carnero, todos de tres años de edad, y además una paloma adulta y una paloma joven”.
9 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10 Así que Abram mató a los tres animales, luego los cortó por la mitad, y puso cada mitad frente a la otra. Sin embargo, no cortó a las aves por la mitad.
10 He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
11 Cuando los buitres descendían para comerse los cadáveres, Abram los espantaba.
11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 Cuando se puso el sol, Abram sintió mucho sueño, y a la vez una oscuridad espesa y terrible se posó sobre él.
12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
13 Entonces el Señor le explicó a Abram: “Puedes estar seguro de que tus descendientes serán extranjeros en otras naciones, donde sufrirán esclavitud y maltratados por 400 años.
13 He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
14 Sin embargo, yo castigaré a la nación que los tendrá como esclavos, y después tus descendientes saldrán, llevándose muchas posesiones de gran valor.
14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
15 Pero en lo que a ti concierne, morirás en paz y serás sepultado después de haber vivido una buena vida.
15 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
16 Cuatro generaciones más tarde, tus descendientes volverán para vivir aquí, porque ahora mismo los pecados de los amonitas no han logrado su máximo alcance”.
16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
17 Después de que el sol se puso y se hizo de noche, de repente apareció un horno echando humo y una antorcha encendida que pasaba entre las mitades de los cadáveres de los animales.
17 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18 Así fue como el Señor hizo un acuerdo con Abram ese día, y le prometió: “Yo le daré esta tierra a tus descendientes. Se extiende desde el Wadi de Egypto hasta el gran río Éufrates,
18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 e incluye el territorio de los quenitas, los quenizitas, los cadmoneos,
19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 los heteos, los ferezeos, los refaítas,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21 los amorreos, los cananeos, los gergeseos, y los jebuseos”.
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
People & places in this chapter
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People
Abraham
Called by God, he left home in faith to become the father of a chosen people.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12–25
Eliezer of Damascus
A man of Damascus in Abram's household whom Abram named as the heir of his house while he remained childless.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 15:2
Places
Ur
Traditionally the southern Sumerian city (Tell el-Muqayyar) with its famous ziggurat, though some scholars argue for a northern Ur (location debated). Abraham set out from here.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 11:31; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7
Cross references (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 119:114; Psalm 84:11; Hebrews 13:5–6; Genesis 26:24
- 2 Genesis 25:21; 1 Samuel 1:11; Acts 7:5; Genesis 12:1–3; Genesis 44:1
- 3 Genesis 14:14; Proverbs 29:21; Ecclesiastes 2:7
- 4 Genesis 17:16; Galatians 4:28; 2 Samuel 7:12; Genesis 21:12; 2 Chronicles 32:21
- 5 Hebrews 11:12; Romans 4:18; Deuteronomy 1:10; Exodus 32:13; Genesis 22:17
- 6 James 2:23; Galatians 3:6–14; Romans 4:9; Romans 4:20–25; Romans 4:3–6
- 7 Genesis 12:1; Acts 7:2–4; Romans 4:13; Psalm 105:42; Genesis 13:15–17
- 8 Luke 1:18; Luke 1:34; 2 Kings 20:8; Isaiah 7:11; Psalm 86:17
- 9 Leviticus 14:22; Leviticus 14:30; Luke 2:24; Leviticus 3:6; Leviticus 3:1
- 10 Jeremiah 34:18–19; Leviticus 1:17; Genesis 15:17
- 11 Matthew 13:4; Psalm 119:13; Ezekiel 17:7; Ezekiel 17:3
- 12 Genesis 2:21; Job 33:15; Daniel 10:8–9; Acts 9:8–9; Job 4:13–14
- 13 Acts 7:6–7; Exodus 1:11; Exodus 12:40–41; Acts 7:17; Exodus 1:1–2
- 14 Nehemiah 9:9–11; Exodus 6:5–6; Exodus 12:32–38; Joshua 24:4–7; Exodus 7:1–14
- 15 Job 5:26; Genesis 25:7–9; 2 Chronicles 34:28; Numbers 27:13; Daniel 12:13
- 16 1 Kings 21:26; Daniel 8:23; Matthew 23:32–35; Exodus 12:40; 1 Thessalonians 2:16
- 17 Jeremiah 34:18–19; Judges 6:21; Jeremiah 11:4; Exodus 3:2–3; 1 Chronicles 21:26
- 18 Joshua 1:3–4; Genesis 12:7; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 13:15; Deuteronomy 11:24
- 19 Numbers 24:21–22
- 20 Genesis 14:5; Isaiah 17:5
- 21 Exodus 23:23–28; Exodus 33:2; Genesis 10:15–19; Matthew 8:28; Exodus 34:11
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What the Fathers said
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For Matthew the apostle-- knowing, as one and the same God, Him who had given promise to Abraham, that He would make his seed as the stars of heaven, and Him who, by His Son Christ Jesus, has called us to the knowledge of Himself, from the worship of stones, so that those who were not a people were made …
Here, indeed, is set down that sentence which the apostle quotes in order to commend the grace of God, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness;" lest the circumcision should glory, and be unwilling to receive the uncircumcised nations to the faith of Christ.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For both Stephen saith, "Receive my spirit;" and Paul, "To depart and to be with Christ is far better;" and of the patriarch too the Scripture saith, that "he was gathered unto his fathers, being cherished in a good old age." And as to the proof, that neither can the souls of sinners continue here; hear the rich man making …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… last times was made visible and passible, and spake with the human race, that He might from the stones raise up children unto Abraham, and fulfil the promise which God had given him, and that He might make his seed as the stars of heaven, as John the Baptist says: "For God is able from these stones to raise up …
In the same vision, God in speaking to him also says, "I am God that brought thee out of the region of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it." And when Abram asked whereby he might know that he should inherit it, God said to him, "Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she-goat …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)