⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and ^(A)the ^[a]people whom they had acquired ^(B)in Haran, and they ^(C)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram ^(D)passed through the land to the place of Shechem, ^(E)as far as ^[b]the terebinth tree of Moreh. ^(F)And the Canaanites were then in the land.

^7 (G)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(H)“To your ^[c]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an ^(I)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

¹² Now when the sun was going down, ^(A)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(B)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(C)they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve ^(D)I will judge; afterward ^(E)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, ^(F)you shall ^[a]go ^(G)to your fathers in peace; ^(H)you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But ^(I)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity ^(J)of the Amorites ^(K)is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ And 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 ^(L)passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the Lord ^(M)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

^(N)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— ¹⁹ the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”