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¹ After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, Don't be afraid, Abram: I am your shield, [and] your exceeding great reward.

² And Abram said, O Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?³ And Abram said, Look, to me you have given no seed: and, see, one born in my house is my heir.⁴ And, look, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, This man shall not be your heir; But he that shall come forth out of inside you shall be your heir.⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your seed be.⁶ And he believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

⁷ And he said to him, I am Yahweh that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.⁸ And he said, O Lord Yahweh, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?⁹ And he said to him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.¹⁰ And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other: but he did not divide the birds.¹¹ And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

¹² And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, look, a dread, dark and enormous, fell on him.¹³ And he said to Abram, Know for certain that your seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;¹⁴ and also that nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge: and afterward they shall come out with great substance.¹⁵ But you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, look, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.¹⁸ In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:¹⁹ 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.