¶ After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in¹ a vision, saying, Fear² not, Abram: I am thy shield³, and thy⁴ exceeding great reward.

¶ And Abram said, Lord GOD, what⁵ wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless⁶, and the⁷ steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram said, Behold,⁸ to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born⁹ in my house is mine heir.

And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come¹⁰ forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell¹¹ the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So¹² shall thy seed be.

And he believed¹³ in the LORD; and he counted¹⁴ it to him for righteousness.

¶ And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought¹⁵ thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give¹⁶ thee this land to inherit it.

¹⁷And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

¹⁸And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

¶ And he took unto him all these, and divided them¹⁹ in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds²⁰ divided he not.

And when the fowls²¹ came down upon the carcases, Abram²² drove them away.

¶ And when the sun was going down, a deep²³ sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror²⁴ of great darkness fell upon him.

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy²⁵ seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four²⁶ hundred years;

And also that²⁷ nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with²⁸ great substance.

And thou²⁹ shalt go to thy fathers in peace³⁰; thou shalt be buried³¹ in a good³² old age.

But in the³³ fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites³⁴ is not³⁵ yet full.

¶ And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking³⁶ furnace, and a burning lamp³⁷ that passed³⁸ between those pieces.

In the same day the LORD made³⁹ a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy⁴⁰ seed have I given this land, from⁴¹ the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates⁴²:

The Kenites⁴³, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

¶ And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims⁴⁴,

And the Amorites⁴⁵, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites⁴⁶, and the Jebusites.