Genesis 15:7–21 · BSB
15:7
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
15:8
But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
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15:9
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
15:10
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.
15:11
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
15:12
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
15:14
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.
15:15
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
15:17
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
15:19
the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
15:20
Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
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