Genesis 15:12-19

New King James Version

¹² Now when the sun was going down, ^(A)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(B)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(C)they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve ^(D)I will judge; afterward ^(E)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, ^(F)you shall ^[a]go ^(G)to your fathers in peace; ^(H)you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But ^(I)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity ^(J)of the Amorites ^(K)is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that ^(L)passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the Lord ^(M)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

^(N)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— ¹⁹ the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites,