1After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, Don't be afraid, Abram: I am your shield, [and] your exceedingly great reward. 2And Abram said, O Sovereign Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? 3And Abram said, Look, to me you have given no seed: and, see, one born in my house is my heir. 4And, look, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, This man will not be your heir; But he who will come forth out of inside you will 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 will your seed be. 6And he believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness. 7And he said to him, I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it. 8And he said, O Sovereign Yahweh, by what shall I know that I will inherit it? 9And he said to him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half opposite the other: but he did not divide the birds. 11And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and, look, a dread, dark and enormous, fell on him. 13And he said to Abram, Know for certain that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them; and they will afflict them four hundred years; 14and also that nation, whom they will serve, I will judge: and afterward they will come out with great substance. 15But you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried in a good old age. 16And in the fourth generation they will come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 17And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, look, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18In 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: 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.