11. Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram scared them away.
12. As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great, dark dread descended upon him.
13. Then the Lord said to Abram: Know for certain that your descendants will reside as aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
14. But I will bring judgment on the nation they must serve, and after this they will go out with great wealth.
15. You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace; you will be buried at a ripe old age.
16. In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.
17. When the sun had set and it was dark, there appeared a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch, which passed between those pieces.
18. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates,
19. the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
21. the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.