Genesis 15:12-21 (New International Version)
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,1 and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
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Then the LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved2 and mistreated four hundred years.3
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out4 with great possessions.5
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You, however, will go to your fathers6 in peace and be buried at a good old age.7
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In the fourth generation8 your descendants will come back here,9 for the sin of the Amorites10 has not yet reached its full measure."
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch11 appeared and passed between the pieces.12
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram13 and said, "To your descendants I give this land,14 from the rivera of Egypt15 to the great river, the Euphrates16--
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the land of the Kenites,17 Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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Hittites,18 Perizzites,19 Rephaites,20
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."21
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