15 You, however, will go to your ancestors(A) in peace and be buried at a good old age.(B) 16 In the fourth generation(C) your descendants will come back here,(D) for the sin of the Amorites(E) has not yet reached its full measure.”

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

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  1. Genesis 15:18 Or river

15 (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.) 16 After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. 18 So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt[a] to the great Euphrates River— 19 the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”

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  1. 15:18 Hebrew the river of Egypt, referring either to an eastern branch of the Nile River or to the Brook of Egypt in the Sinai (see Num 34:5).

15 Now as for you, (A)you shall [a]go (B)to your fathers in peace; (C)you shall be buried at a good old age. 16 But (D)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity (E)of the Amorites (F)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 (G)passed between those pieces. 18 On the same day the Lord (H)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

(I)“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.”

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  1. Genesis 15:15 Die and join your ancestors