12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.


In Context

9 So the Lord said to him, "Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."

10 Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.

11 Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

12 As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

13 Then the Lord said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Genesis 15:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:12And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, see, an horror of great darkness fell on him.