15:12 When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, 1 and great terror overwhelmed him. 2 15:13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain 3 that your descendants will be strangers 4 in a foreign country. 5 They will be enslaved and oppressed 6 for four hundred years. 15:14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. 7 Afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15:15 But as for you, 8 you will go to your ancestors 9 in peace and be buried at a good old age. 10 15:16 In the fourth generation 11 your descendants 12 will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” 13
15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch 14 passed between the animal parts. 15 15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant 16 with Abram: “To your descendants I give 17 this land, from the river of Egypt 18 to the great river, the Euphrates River – 15:19 the land 19 of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” 20