8. And he said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
9. And He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
10. And he took all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds.
11. And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇram drove them away.
12. And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Aḇram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
13. And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
14. “But the nation whom they serve I am going to judge, and afterward let them come out with great possessions.
15. “Now as for you, you are to go to your fathers in peace, you are to be buried at a good old age.
16. “Then, in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the crookedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
17. And it came to be, when the sun went down and it was dark, that see, a smoking oven and a burning torch passing between those pieces.
18. On the same day יהוה made a covenant with Aḇram, saying, “I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Mitsrayim to the great river, the River Euphrates,
19. with the Qĕynite, and the Qenizzite, and the Qaḏmonite,
20. and the Ḥittite, and the Perizzite, and the Repha’im,