Genesis 15

1After these things the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, thy exceeding great reward.

2And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

3And Abram said, Lo, to me thou hast given no seed, and behold, a son of my house will be mine heir.

4And behold, the word of Jehovah [came] to him, saying, This shall not be thine heir, but he that will come forth out of thy body shall be thine heir.

5And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!

6And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

8And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

9And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

10And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.

11And the birds of prey came down on the carcases; and Abram scared them away.

12And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him.

13And he said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed will be a sojourner in a land [that is] not theirs, and they shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

14But also that nation which they shall serve I will judge; and afterwards they shall come out with great property.

15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16And [in the] fourth generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

17And it came to pass when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, that behold, there was a smoking furnace, and a flame of fire which passed between those pieces.

18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;

19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,

21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.