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,

21 The Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Gergeshaites, and the Jebusites.

Chapter 16

1 But Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him not. And she had an Egyptian maidservant, whose name was Hagar.

2 And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold, the Lord has shut up my womb, that I should not bear children; Come in to my maidservant: perhaps I will have children by her. Abram listened to Sarai's words.

3 And Sarai the wife of Abram took her maidservant, Hagar the Egyptian woman, after the end of ten years of Abram's sojourn in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to wife.

4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she began to despise her mistress.

5 And Sarai said to Abram, 'For my offense you are guilty; I have given my maidservant into your bosom; and she, seeing that she had conceived, began to despise me; Let the Lord be the judge between me and you.