11. When the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12. As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and terror and a great darkness fell on him.
13. Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
14. But I will judge the nation that they serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
15. As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace and you will be buried at a good old age.
16. In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
17. When the sun went down and it was dark, a smoking fire pot with a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
18. On that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
19. the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,