Genesis 15:9-19 (New International Version)
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So the LORD said to him, "Bring me a heifer,1 a goat and a ram, each three years old,2 along with a dove and a young pigeon.3"
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Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other;4 the birds, however, he did not cut in half.5
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Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses,6 but Abram drove them away.
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,7 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 enslaved8 and mistreated four hundred years.9
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out10 with great possessions.11
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You, however, will go to your fathers12 in peace and be buried at a good old age.13
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In the fourth generation14 your descendants will come back here,15 for the sin of the Amorites16 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 torch17 appeared and passed between the pieces.18
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram19 and said, "To your descendants I give this land,20 from the rivera of Egypt21 to the great river, the Euphrates22--
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the land of the Kenites,23 Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
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