¹² When the sun was setting, a deep sleep overcame Abram; and a horror (terror, shuddering fear, nightmare) of great darkness overcame him. ¹³ God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.^{(A) 14} But on that nation whom your descendants will serve I will bring judgment, and afterward they will come out [of that land] with great possessions.^{(B) 15} As for you, you shall [die and] go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ Then in the ^[a]fourth generation your descendants shall return here [to Canaan, the land of promise], for the wickedness and guilt of the ^[b]Amorites is not yet complete (finished).”^(C)

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and a [deep] darkness had come, there appeared a smoking ^[c]brazier and a flaming torch which passed between the [divided] pieces [of the animals].^(D)