Genesis 15:7–17

⁷Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who ^obrought you out of ^pUr of the Chaldeans, ^qto give you this land to inherit it.”

⁸And he said, “Lord God, ^rhow shall I know that I will inherit it?”

⁹So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰Then he brought all these to Him and ^scut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut ^tthe birds in two. ¹¹And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

¹²Now when the sun was going down, ^ua deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^vthat your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^wthey will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴And also the nation whom they serve ^xI will judge; afterward ^ythey shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵Now as for you, ^zyou shall ⁴go ^ato your fathers in peace; ^byou shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶But ^cin the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity ^dof the Amorites ^eis not yet complete.”

¹⁷And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that ^fpassed between those pieces.