Genesis 15:7-21

New American Standard Bible

⁷ And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of ^(A)Ur of the Chaldeans, to ^(B)give you this land to ^[a]possess it.” ⁸ But he said, “Lord ^[b]God, ^(C)how may I know that I will ^[c]possess it?” ⁹ So He said to him, “^[d]Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he ^[e]brought all these to Him and ^(D)cut them ^[f]in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he ^(E)did not cut the birds. ¹¹ And birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

¹² Now when the sun was going down, ^(F)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, ^[g]terror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that ^(G)your ^[h]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, ^[i]where ^(H)they will be enslaved and oppressed for ^(I)four hundred years. ¹⁴ But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out ^(J)with ^[j]many possessions. ¹⁵ As for you, ^(K)you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ Then in ^(L)the fourth generation they will return here, for ^(M)the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ Now it came about, when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, a smoking oven and a flaming torch appeared which ^(N)passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying,

^19 (Q)the land of the Kenite, the Kenizzite, the Kadmonite, ²⁰ the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.”