Chapter 15

1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision [by night], saying, Fear not, Abram; I am your shield; Your reward [will be] very great.

2 And Abram said, "Lord, Lord! what wilt thou give me? I remain childless; the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

3 And Abram said, Behold, thou hast given me no offspring, and behold, my household is my heir.

4 And the word of the Lord came to him, saying, He shall not be thy heir, but he that cometh out of thy loins shall be thy heir.

5 And he brought him out, and said to him, 'Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if you can count them.' And he said to him, "So many descendants will you have."

6 Abram believed the Lord, and He counted it to him for righteousness.

7 And he said to him, 'I am the Lord, who brought you out of your of the Chaldees, to give you this land for a possession.'

8 He said, "O Lord Lord! whereby shall I know that I shall possess it?

9 And the Lord said unto him, Take unto me a heifer three years old, and a goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, and a young dove.

10 And he took them all, and cut them in two, and put one part against the other; only the birds were not cut.

11 And the birds of prey fell upon the carcasses; but Abram drove them away.

12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.

13 And the LORD said unto Abram, Know this, that thy descendants shall be sojourners in a land not their own, and shall enslave them, and shall oppress them four hundred years,

14 but I will execute judgment on the people to whom they shall be in bondage; After this they will go out with great goods;

15 But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried in a good old age;

16 In the fourth generation they shall return hither: for the measure of the iniquities of the Amorites has not yet been filled.

17 And when the sun went down and darkness came, behold, smoke as from a furnace and a flame of fire passed through the cut animals.

18 And on this day the Lord 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.

19 Keneev, Kenezee, Kedmoneev,

20 The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,