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8 He said, "Lord Yahweh, whereby will I know that I will inherit it?"
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But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, how can I know that I will gain possession of it?”
9 He said to him, "Take me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon."
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So the LORD said to him, “Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
10 He took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
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Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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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, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on 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 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them 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 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15 But you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.
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You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16 In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
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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 It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
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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 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
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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—
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