Genesis 15:7-21

New King James Version

⁷ Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who ^(A)brought you out of ^(B)Ur of the Chaldeans, ^(C)to give you this land to inherit it.”

⁸ And he said, “Lord God, ^(D)how shall I know that I will inherit it?”

⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and ^(E)cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut ^(F)the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

¹² Now when the sun was going down, ^(G)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(H)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(I)they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve ^(J)I will judge; afterward ^(K)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, ^(L)you shall ^[a]go ^(M)to your fathers in peace; ^(N)you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But ^(O)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity ^(P)of the Amorites ^(Q)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 ^(R)passed between those pieces. ¹⁸ On the same day the Lord ^(S)made a covenant with Abram, saying:

^(T)“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, ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”