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¹ After these things the word of YHWH has been to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I [am] a shield to you, your reward [is] exceedingly great."

² And Abram says, "Lord YHWH, what do You give to me, and I am going childless? And an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer."³ And Abram says, "Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir."⁴ And behold, the word of YHWH [is] to him, saying, "This [one] will not be your heir; but he who comes out from your bowels, he will be your heir";⁵ and He brings him out outside and says, "Now look attentively toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them"; and He says to him, "Thus is your seed."⁶ And he has believed in YHWH, and He reckons it to him—righteousness.

⁷ And He says to him, "I [am] YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to you this land to possess it";⁸ and he says, "Lord YHWH, whereby do I know that I possess it?"⁹ And He says to him, "Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a female goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird";¹⁰ and he takes all these to Him, and separates them in the midst, and puts each piece opposite its fellow, but the bird he has not divided;¹¹ and the ravenous birds come down on the carcasses, and Abram causes them to turn back.

¹² And the sun is about to go in, and deep sleep has fallen on Abram, and behold, a terror of great darkness is falling on him;¹³ and He says to Abram, "knowing—know that your seed is a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they have served them, and they have afflicted them four hundred years,¹⁴ and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance;¹⁵ and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;¹⁶ and the fourth generation turns back here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."

¹⁷ And it comes to pass—the sun has gone in, and thick darkness has been and behold, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which has passed over between those pieces.¹⁸ In that day has YHWH made with Abram a covenant, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the River of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River,¹⁹ with the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,²⁰ and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,²¹ and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite."