Genesis 15:6-21

61Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. 7And He said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of 2Ur of the Chaldeans, to 3give you this land to 4possess it.” 8He said, “O Lord 5God, 6how may I know that I will 7possess it?” 9So He said to him, “8Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10Then he 9brought all these to Him and 10cut them 11in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he 12did not cut the birds. 11The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12Now when the sun was going down, 13a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, 14terror and great darkness fell upon him. 13God said to Abram, “Know for certain that 15your 16descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, 17where 18they will be enslaved and oppressed 19four hundred years. 14But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out 20with 21many possessions. 15As for you, 22you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16Then in 23the fourth generation they will return here, for 24the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

17It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which 25passed between these pieces. 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “26To your 27descendants I have given this land, From 28the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: 1929the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite 20and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim 21and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”