Genesis 15:13-18

13Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that 1your 2descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, 3where 4they will be enslaved and oppressed for 5four hundred years. 14But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out 6with 7many possessions. 15As for you, 8you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16Then in 9the fourth generation they will return here, for 10the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

17Now it came about, when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, a smoking oven and a flaming torch appeared which 11passed between these pieces. 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “12To your 13descendants I have given this land, From 14the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates: