Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
11 Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
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Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12 When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
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As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13 The Lord said to him, "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.
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Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
14 But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15 You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished."
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In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”
17 When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.
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When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.
18 Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
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On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates—
19 including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
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Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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