10. Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
11. Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12. When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
13. The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for 400 years.
14. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.
15. You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.
16. It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”
17. When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.
18. Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the River Euphrates,
19. including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,