en_tn/gen/15/12.md

translationWords

• en:tw:abraham
• en:tw:afflict
• en:tw:descendant
• en:tw:enslave
• en:tw:foreigner

translationNotes

• **Abram fell sound asleep ** - "A deep sleep fell on Abram."
• fell sound asleep - "fell into a very deep sleep" or "slept deeply." It means that he was very much asleep.
• deep and terrifying darkness - "extreme darkness that that terrified him"
• overwhelmed him - "surrounded him"
• strangers - "aliens" or "foreigners"
• and will be enslaved and oppressed - This can also be translated with an active clause: "and the owners of that land will enslave your descendants and oppress them." (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_activepassive)