¹² As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,^(A) and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years^(B) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved^(C) and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out^(D) with great possessions.^{(E) 15} You, however, will go to your ancestors^(F) in peace and be buried at a good old age.^{(G) 16} In the fourth generation^(H) your descendants will come back here,^(I) for the sin of the Amorites^(J) has not yet reached its full measure.”

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch^(K) appeared and passed between the pieces.^{(L) 18} On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram^(M) and said, “To your descendants I give this land,^(N) from the Wadi^[a] of Egypt^(O) to the great river, the Euphrates^(P)— ¹⁹ the land of the Kenites,^(Q) Kenizzites, Kadmonites, ²⁰ Hittites,^(R) Perizzites,^(S) Rephaites,^{(T) 21} Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”^(U)

¹³ Thus you nullify the word of God^(A) by your tradition^(B) that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Driving Out the Nations

7 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess^(A) and drives out before you many nations^(B)—the Hittites,^(C) Girgashites,^(D) Amorites,^(E) Canaanites, Perizzites,^(F) Hivites^(G) and Jebusites,^(H) seven nations larger and stronger than you— ² and when the Lord your God has delivered^(I) them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy^(J) them totally.^[a](K) Make no treaty^(L) with them, and show them no mercy.^{(M) 3} Do not intermarry with them.^(N) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,