Gen 15:12 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 12. A deep sleep] tardemah , the same word which is used to express the sleep into which Adam was cast, previous to the formation of Eve; . A horror of great darkness ] Which God designed to be expressive of the affliction and misery into which his posterity should be brought during the four hundred years of their bondage in Egypt; as the next verse particularly states.

‏ Genesis 15:12

Verse 12. A deep sleep] tardemah, the same word which is used to express the sleep into which Adam was cast, previous to the formation of Eve; Ge 2:21.

A horror of great darkness] Which God designed to be expressive of the affliction and misery into which his posterity should be brought during the four hundred years of their bondage in Egypt; as the next verse particularly states.