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


In Context

9 He said to him, |Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.|

10 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

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

13 He said to Abram, |Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:12As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over 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 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.