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Genesis 15:12–21

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12And it happened, as the sun went down,j then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him. 13And he said to Abram, “You must surely knowk that your descendants shall be as aliens in a land not their own.l And they shall serve themm and theyn shall oppress them four hundred years. 14And also the nation that theyo serve I will judge. Thenp afterward they shall go out with great possessions. 15And as for you, you shall go to your ancestorsq in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete.”r 17And after the sun had gone down and it was dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces. 18On that day Yahweh mades a covenant with Abram saying, “To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river, 19the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

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Footnotes

  1. jLiterally “to go”
  2. kLiterally “knowing you must know”
  3. lLiterally “not to them”
  4. mSome nation hostile to Abram’s descendants (Egypt in later history)
  5. nSome nation hostile to Abram’s descendants (Egypt in later history)
  6. oThat is, Abram’s descendants
  7. pOr “And”
  8. qOr “fathers”
  9. rLiterally “is not complete up to now”
  10. sLiterally “cut”