15:9 The Lord ¹  said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.” 15:10 So Abram ²  took all these for him and then cut them in two ³  and placed each half opposite the other, ⁴  but he did not cut the birds in half. 15:11 When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

15:12 When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, ⁵  and great terror overwhelmed him. ⁶  15:13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain ⁷  that your descendants will be strangers ⁸  in a foreign country. ⁹  They will be enslaved and oppressed ¹⁰  for four hundred years. 15:14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. ¹¹  Afterward they will come out with many possessions. 15:15 But as for you, ¹²  you will go to your ancestors ¹³  in peace and be buried at a good old age. ¹⁴  15:16 In the fourth generation ¹⁵  your descendants ¹⁶  will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.” ¹⁷ 

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch ¹⁸  passed between the animal parts. ¹⁹  15:18 That day the Lord made a covenant ²⁰  with Abram: “To your descendants I give ²¹  this land, from the river of Egypt ²²  to the great river, the Euphrates River – 15:19 the land ²³  of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 15:20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 15:21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.” ²⁴