He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
015:006 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
015:007 He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur
of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
015:008 He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
015:009 He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female
goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove,
and a young pigeon."
015:010 He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle,
and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't
divide the birds.
015:011 The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram
drove them away.
015:012 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram.
Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
015:013 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as
foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them.
They will afflict them four hundred years.
015:014 I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve.
Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
015:015 but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried
in a good old age.
015:016 In the fourth generation they will come here again,
for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
015:017 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.
015:018 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: