AFTER these things the word of the LORD came to Abraham in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your excedingly great reward.

2 But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus ? "

3 The Abram said , "Look, You have given me no offspring ; indeed one born in my house is my heir ! "

4 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him saying, "This one shall not be  your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. "

5 Then He brought outside and said, "Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. "And He said, "So shall your descendants be.

6 And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted  it to him for righteousness.

7 Then He said to him, " I am the LORD ,who brought you out of the Chaladeans, to give you this land to inherit it ? "

8 And he said, " Lord GOD, how shall I know that I will inherit it ?"

9 So He said to him, "Bring Me a three - year -old heifer, a three - year - old femal goat, a trutledove, and a yuong pigeon."

10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other ; but he did not cut the birds in two.

11 And when the vulture came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.    

12 Now when the sun was going down , a deep sleep fell upon Abram ; and behold , horror and great darkness fell upon him.

13 Then He said to Abraham : "Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their, and willl serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

14 "And also whom they serve I will judge ; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

15 "Now as for ,you shall go to your fathers in peace ; you shall be buried at a good old age.

16 "But in the forth generatin they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

17 "And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold , ther appeared a smoking oven and burning torch that passed between those pieces.

18 On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying : "To your descendant I have given this land from the river of Egypt yo the great river , the River Eupherates -

19 "The Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites,

20 "The Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephraim,

21 "The Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the jebusites." Genesis 15