⁷And He saith unto him, ‘I am Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;’ ⁸and he saith, ‘Lord Jehovah, whereby do I know that I possess it?’ ⁹And He saith unto him, ‘Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;’ ¹⁰and he taketh to him all these, and separateth them in the midst, and putteth each piece over against its fellow, but the bird he hath not divided; ¹¹and the ravenous birds come down upon the carcases, and Abram causeth them to turn back.

¹²And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep hath fallen upon Abram, and lo, a terror of great darkness is falling upon him; ¹³and He saith to Abram, ‘knowing—know that thy seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years, ¹⁴and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; ¹⁵and thou—thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age; ¹⁶and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.’

¹⁷And it cometh to pass—the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been—and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

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