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16 After four generations they will return here to this land; for the wickedness of the Amorite nations living here now[a] will not be ready for punishment until then.”

17 As the sun went down and it was dark, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch that passed between the halves of the carcasses. 18 So that day Jehovah made this covenant with Abram: “I have given this land to your descendants from the Wadi-el-Arish[b] to the Euphrates River.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:16 Amorite nations living here now, implied.
  2. Genesis 15:18 Wadi-el-Arish, literally, “River of Egypt,” at the southern border of Judah.

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