⁵ He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars^(A)—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring^[a] be.”^(B)

⁶ Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.^(C)

⁷ He also said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out^(D) of Ur of the Chaldeans^(E) to give you this land to take possession of it.”^(F)

⁸ But Abram said, “Sovereign Lord,^(G) how can I know^(H) that I will gain possession of it?”^(I)

¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years^(A) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved^(B) and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out^(C) with great possessions.^{(D) 15} You, however, will go to your ancestors^(E) in peace and be buried at a good old age.^{(F) 16} In the fourth generation^(G) your descendants will come back here,^(H) for the sin of the Amorites^(I) has not yet reached its full measure.”

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch^(J) appeared and passed between the pieces.^(K)