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title: "Genesis 15 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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# Genesis 15

Genesis 15 is chapter 15 of 50 in the Book of Genesis. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> God promiseth seed to Abram. His faith, sacrifice and vision.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Genesis 15 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And so, these things having been transacted, the word of the Lord came to Abram by a vision, saying: “Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your protector, and your reward is exceedingly great.”
2. And Abram said: “Lord God, what will you give to me? I may go without children. And the son of the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.”
3. And Abram added: “Yet to me you have not given offspring. And behold, my servant born in my house will be my heir.”
4. And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: “This one will not be your heir. But he who will come from your loins, the same will you have for your heir.”
5. And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7. And he said to him, “I am the Lord who led you away from Ur of the Chaldeans, so as to give you this land, and so that you would possess it.”
8. But he said, “Lord God, in what way may I be able to know that I will possess it?”
9. 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.”
10. Taking all these, he divided them through the middle, and placed both parts opposite one another. But the birds he did not divide.
11. And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
13. 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.
14. Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
15. But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16. But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time.”
17. Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.
18. On that day, God formed a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt, even to the great river Euphrates:
19. the land of the Kenites and the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites
20. and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, likewise the Rephaim,
21. and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

## Genesis 15 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. His itaque transactis, factus est sermo Domini ad Abram per visionem dicens: Noli timere, Abram: ego protector tuus sum, et merces tua magna nimis.
2. Dixitque Abram: Domine Deus, quid dabis mihi? ego vadam absque liberis, et filius procuratoris domus meæ iste Damascus Eliezer.
3. Addiditque Abram: Mihi autem non dedisti semen, et ecce vernaculus meus, hæres meus erit.
4. Statimque sermo Domini factus est ad eum, dicens: Non erit hic hæres tuus, sed qui egredietur de utero tuo, ipsum habebis hæredem.
5. Eduxitque eum foras, et ait illi: Suspice cælum, et numera stellas, si potes. Et dixit ei: Sic erit semen tuum.
6. Credidit Abram Deo, et reputatum est illi ad justitiam.
7. Dixitque ad eum: Ego Dominus qui eduxi te de Ur Chaldæorum ut darem tibi terram istam, et possideres eam.
8. At ille ait: Domine Deus, unde scire possum quod possessurus sim eam?
9. Et respondens Dominus: Sume, inquit, mihi vaccam triennem, et capram trimam, et arietem annorum trium, turturem quoque et columbam.
10. Qui tollens universa hæc, divisit ea per medium, et utrasque partes contra se altrinsecus posuit; aves autem non divisit.
11. Descenderuntque volucres super cadavera, et abigebat eas Abram.
12. Cumque sol occumberet, sopor irruit super Abram, et horror magnus et tenebrosus invasit eum.
13. Dictumque est ad eum: Scito prænoscens quod peregrinum futurum sit semen tuum in terra non sua, et subjicient eos servituti, et affligent quadringentis annis.
14. Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia.
15. Tu autem ibis ad patres tuos in pace, sepultus in senectute bona.
16. Generatione autem quarta revertentur huc: necdum enim completæ sunt iniquitates Amorrhæorum usque ad præsens tempus.
17. Cum ergo occubuisset sol, facta est caligo tenebrosa, et apparuit clibanus fumans, et lampas ignis transiens inter divisiones illas.
18. In illo die pepigit Dominus fœdus cum Abram, dicens: Semini tuo dabo terram hanc a fluvio Ægypti usque ad fluvium magnum Euphraten,
19. Cinæos, et Cenezæos, Cedmonæos,
20. et Hethæos, et Pherezæos, Raphaim quoque,
21. et Amorrhæos, et Chananæos, et Gergesæos, et Jebusæos.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2374: The Love of Husband and Wife ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2570: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 762: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 288: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 146: The Obedience of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2571: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Jun 23, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
- Sun, Mar 12, 2028 (computed): Second Sunday of Lent — First Reading, Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).