Jubilees 14:1-24

¹After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a dream, saying: 'Do not fear, Abram; I am your defender, and your reward will be exceedingly great.'

²And he said: 'Lord, Lord, what will you give me, seeing I go away childless, and the son of Maseq, the son of my handmaid, is Dammasek Eliezer: he will be my heir, and to me you have given no offspring.'

³And He said to him: 'This man will not be your heir, but one who will come out of your own body; he will be your heir.'

⁴And He brought him outside, and said to him: 'Look toward heaven and count the stars if you are able to count them.' And he looked toward heaven, and beheld the stars. And He said to him: 'So shall your offspring be.'

⁵And he believed in the Lord, and it was counted to him for righteousness.

⁶And He said to him: 'I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you the land of the Canaanites to possess forever; and I will be God to you and to your offspring after you.'

⁷And he said: 'Lord, Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?'

⁸And He said to him: 'Take for Me a heifer three years old, and a goat three years old, and a sheep three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon.'

⁹And he took all these in the middle of the month; and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron.

¹⁰And he built there an altar, and sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the middle, and laid them opposite each other; but the birds he did not divide.

¹¹And birds came down upon the pieces, and Abram drove them away, and did not allow the birds to touch them.

¹²And it came to pass, when the sun had set, that an ecstasy fell upon Abram, and behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him, and it was said to Abram: 'Know for certain that your offspring shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall bring them into bondage, and afflict them four hundred years.'

¹³'And the nation also to whom they will be in bondage I will judge, and after that they shall come out from there with much wealth.'

¹⁴'And you shall go to your fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.'

¹⁵'But in the fourth generation they shall return here; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.'

¹⁶And he awoke from his sleep, and he arose, and the sun had set; and there was a flame, and behold, a furnace was smoking, and a flame of fire passed between the pieces.

¹⁷And on that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: 'To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates—the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Perizzites, and the Rephaim, the Phakorites, and the Hivites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.'

¹⁸And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their grain offerings, and their drink offerings, and the fire devoured them.

¹⁹And on that day we made a covenant with Abram, just as we had covenanted with Noah in this month; and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance for himself forever.

²⁰And Abram rejoiced, and made all these things known to Sarai his wife; and he believed that he would have offspring, but she did not bear.

²¹And Sarai advised her husband Abram, and said to him: 'Go in to Hagar, my Egyptian maid: it may be that I shall build up offspring for you by her.'

²²And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai his wife, and said to her, 'Do so.' And Sarai took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to Abram, her husband, to be his wife.

²³And he went in to her, and she conceived and bore him a son, and he called his name Ishmael, in the fifth year of this week [1965 A.M.]; and this was the eighty-sixth year in the life of Abram.

²⁴And he went in to her, and she conceived and bore him a son, and he called his name Ishmael, in the fifth year of this week [1965 A.M.]; and this was the eighty-sixth year in the life of Abram.