^{7 Ref} He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

^{8 Ref} He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

^{9 Ref} He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."

^{10 Ref} He took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

^{11 Ref} The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

^{12 Ref} When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

^{13 Ref} He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

^{14 Ref} I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.

^{15 Ref} But you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

^{16 Ref} In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."

^{17 Ref} It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

^{18 Ref} In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

^{19 Ref} the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

^{20 Ref} the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

^{21 Ref} the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."