1After these things the word of Yehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward. 2And Abram said, O Lord Yehovah, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 3And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, look, one born in my house is my heir. 4And, behold, the word of Yehovah came to him, saying, This man shall not be your heir; but he who shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. 5And 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. 6And he believed in Yehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. 7And he said to him, I am Yehovah who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it. 8And he said, O Lord Yehovah, how shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9And he said to him, Bring 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. 10And he took for himself all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but he did not divide the birds. 11And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, look, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13And 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; 14and also that nation, whom they shall serve, I will judge: and afterward they shall come out with great substance. 15But you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16And in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 17And it happened, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18In that day Yehovah 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: 19the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.