Genesis 15:9–21

⁹He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

¹⁰So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds. ^e11Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. ¹²As the sun was setting, a deep sleep ^ffell on Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.

¹³Then the Lord said to Abram, ^g“Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners ^hin a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed ⁱ400 years. ^j14However, I will judge the nation they serve, ^kand afterward they will go out with many possessions. ^l15But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. ^m16In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” ^no

¹⁷When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. ¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, ^pfrom the brook of Egypt ^qto the Euphrates River: ^r19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, ²⁰Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, ²¹Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”