¹Shure kwezvinhu izvi shoko raJe­hovha rakauya kuna Abhuramu pachiratidzo richiti: Usatya Abhuramu, ndiri nhovo yako, nemu­bayiro wako mukuru-kuru.

¹After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.

²Abhuramu ndokuti: Ishe Jehovha, muchandipei? zvandoenda ndisina mwana; uchava mudyi wenhaka yeimba yangu ndiEriezeri weDhamasiko?

²And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

³Abhuramu ndokuti: Tarira, kwandiri hamuna kupa mbeu; uye tarira, uyo wakaponerwa mumba mangu ndiye achava mudyi we­nhaka yangu.

³And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

⁴Zvino tarira, shoko raJehovha kwaari rakati: Uyu haangavi mudyi we­nhaka wako; asi uyo uchabuda paura hwako, ndiye achava mudyi wenhaka wako.

⁴And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

⁵Zvino wakamubudisa panze akati: Zvino tarira kumatenga, ugoverenga nyere­dzi, kana ungagona kudziverenga. Ndokuti kwaari: Ndizvo zvichaita mbeu yako.

⁵And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

⁶Iye ndokutenda kuna Jehovha. Zvino akamuverengera izvi kuva kururama.

⁶And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

⁷Zvino wakati kwaari: Ndini Jehovha wa­kakubudisa paUri yevaKaradhea, ndikupe nyika iyi ive nhaka yako.

⁷And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

⁸Ndokubva akati: Ishe Jehovha, ndichaziva sei kuti ichava nhaka yangu?

⁸And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

⁹Zvino akati kwaari: Nditorere tsiru remakore matatu, nesheche yembudzi yemakore matatu, negondohwe remakore matatu, nenjiva, nemwana wehangaiwa.

⁹And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

¹⁰Akamutorera zvose izvi, akazvipamura nepakati, akagadzika rwumwe rutivi rwakatarisana nerwumwe; asi shiri haana kudzipamura.

¹⁰And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not.

¹¹Zvino magora aka­burukira kuzvitunha, asi Abhuramu wakaa­dzinga.

¹¹And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

¹²Zvino zuva rakati rovira, hope huru dzakawira pana Abhuramu; zvino tarira, kutya nerima guru zvakawira pamusoro pake.

¹²And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

¹³Zvino wakati kuna Abhuramu: Uzive kwazvo kuti mbeu yako ichava mutorwa munyika isiri yavo, uye vachavashandira, uye vachatambudzwa makore mazana mana.

¹³And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

¹⁴Asi rudzi rwavachashandira ndicharwutonga, uye pashure vachabuda nenhumbi zhinji.

¹⁴and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

¹⁵Asi iwe uchaenda kuna madzibaba ako nerugare, uchavigwa paku­kwegura kwakanaka.

¹⁵But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

¹⁶Zvino rudzi rwechina ru­chadzoka pano; nekuti kuipa kwevaAmori kuchigere kuzara.

¹⁶And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

¹⁷Zvino zvakaitika kuti zuva ravira, uye kwa­sviba, zvino tarira, choto chinopfungaira nemwenje unopfuta zvinopfuura pakati penhindi idzodzo.

¹⁷And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

¹⁸Nezuva iroro Jehovha wakaita sungano naAbhu­ramu achiti: Kumbeu yako ndapa nyika iyi, kubva parwizi rweEgipita kusvikira kurwizi rukuru, rwizi Yufuratesi.

¹⁸In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

¹⁹VaKeni nevaKenizi nevaKadhimoni

¹⁹the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

²⁰nevaHeti nevaPerezi nevaRefaimi,

²⁰and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,

²¹nevaAmori nevaKanani nevaGiriga­shi nevaJebhusi.

²¹and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.