Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Genesis 15:14 in other translations
| BSB | But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions. |
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| WEB | I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth; |
| ASV | and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
| YLT | and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; |
| DARBY | But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property. |
| BBE | But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. |
| Webster | And also that nation which they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
What does Genesis 15:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 15:9-21
9-21. Take me an heifer, &c.--On occasions of great importance, when two or more parties join in a compact, they either observe precisely the same rites as Abram did, or, where they do not, they invoke the lamp as their witness. According to these ideas, which have been from time immemorial engraven on the minds of Eastern people, the Lord Himself condescended to enter into covenant with Abram. The patriarch did not…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 15:12-16
A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk in the light. Several things were then foretold. 1. The suffering state of Abram's seed for a long time. They shall be strangers. The heirs of heaven are strangers on earth. They shall be servants; but Canaanites serve under a curse, the Hebrews under a blessing. They…
Genesis 15:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 15:14
- Nehemiah 9:9-11
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
- Exodus 6:5-6
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
- Exodus 12:32-38
Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men. And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: …
- Joshua 24:4-7
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
- Exodus 7:1-14
And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. Thou shalt speak all that I command thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his land. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. …
- Deuteronomy 4:20
But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
- 1 Samuel 12:8
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
- Psalms 135:14
For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- Deuteronomy 7:18-19
Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt; The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
- Deuteronomy 6:22
And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
- Joshua 24:17
For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
- Genesis 46:1-34
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. …
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Context
- Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- Genesis 15:14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
- Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 15:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas también á la gente á quien servirán, juzgaré yo; y después de esto saldrán con grande riqueza. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais aussi je jugerai, moi, la nation qui les aura asservis; et après cela ils sortiront avec de grands biens. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber ich werde die Nation auch richten, welcher sie dienen werden; und danach werden sie ausziehen mit großer Habe. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Verumtamen gentem, cui servituri sunt, ego judicabo: et post hæc egredientur cum magna substantia. |