covenant but in Genesis 9 that is not the case. Instead, one is given only the background in the narrative of Genesis 6–8 that leads up to the covenant of Genesis 9. We can now see that the author treats God’s history with Abram in somewhat the same way so that Genesis 12–14 forms the historical background to the Abrahamic covenant that is “cut,” or created, in Genesis 15. In the case of the Abrahamic covenant, however, we are also given the historical prologue (Gen. 15:7) that alludes back to the