| 1 | After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward. |
| 2 | And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? |
| 3 | And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir. |
| 4 | And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; But he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. |
| 5 | And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. |
| 6 | And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. |
| 7 | And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. |
| 8 | And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? |
| 9 | And he said unto 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 over against the other: but the birds divided he not. |
| 11 | And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. |
| 12 | And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. |
| 13 | And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy 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, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. |
| 15 | But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. |
| 16 | And in the fourth generation they shall come hither 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, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. |
| 18 | In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto 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. |
