12. As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13. Then the Lord said to him, ‘Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and ill-treated there.
14. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterwards they will come out with great possessions.
15. You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.’
17. When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking brazier with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.