en_tn/gen/15/12.md

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  • **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)