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Then[a] Abram said, “O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? I continue to be[b] childless, and my heir[c] is Eliezer of Damascus.” And Abram said, “Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, a member of my household[d] is my heir.”[e] And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him saying, “This person will not be your heir,[f] but your own son will be your heir.”[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:2 Or “And”
  2. Genesis 15:2 Literally “I am going”
  3. Genesis 15:2 Literally “the son of the inheritance of my house”
  4. Genesis 15:3 Literally “a son of my house”
  5. Genesis 15:3 Literally “inheriting me”
  6. Genesis 15:4 Literally “inherit you”
  7. Genesis 15:4 Literally “he who goes out from your body, he will inherit you”