Genesis 15 After these matters came the word of Yahweh to Abram in a vision, saying, "You must not fear, Abram! I am your Shield, your exceedingly increased Hire.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ After these matters came the word of Yahweh to Abram in a vision, saying, "You must not fear, Abram! I am your Shield, your exceedingly increased Hire. ² And saying is Abram, "My Lord Yahweh, what are You giving to me, when I am going heirless, and the son running about my house, he is Damascus Eliezer? ³ And saying is Abram, "Behold! To me no seed have You given. And behold! A son of my household is to enjoy my tenancy. ⁴ And, behold! The word of Yahweh comes to him, saying, "Not this one is to enjoy your tenancy, but rather one who shall fare forth from your bowels, he is to enjoy your tenancy. ⁵ And forth is he bringing him outside and saying, "Look, pray, toward the heavens and number the stars, if you can number them.And saying is He to him, "Thus shall your seed become. ⁶ And Abram believes in Yahweh Elohim, and reckoning it is He to him for righteousness. ⁷ And saying is He to him, "I am Yahweh Elohim Who brought you forth from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give to you this land to tenant it. ⁸ And saying is he, "My Lord Yahweh, whereby am I to know that I am to enjoy its tenancy? ⁹ And saying is He to him, "Take for Me a heifer in her third year, and a goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a turtledove, and a fledgling. ¹⁰ And taking is he for Him all these and sundering them is he in the midst, and is putting each sundered part to meet its associate. ¹¹ Yet the birds he did not sunder. And descending are the birds of prey on the severed cadavers, yet Abram is sitting by and turning them back. ¹² And, at the coming of the setting of the sun, a stupor falls on Abram. And, behold! The dread of a great darkness is falling on him. ¹³ And saying is He to Abram, "Knowing, yea, knowing are you that a sojourner is your seed to become in a land not theirs, and they are to serve them. Yet evil shall they do to them and humiliate them four hundred years. ¹⁴ Moreover, also, the nation which they are serving will I adjudicate. And afterward they are to fare forth hither with great goods. ¹⁵ Yet you shall come to your forefathers in peace, and be entombed at a good grey-haired age. ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the depravity of the Amorites has not been repaid hitherto. ¹⁷ When the sun comes to set, and twilight comes, then, behold, a smoking stove, and a torch of fire which passes between these severed parts. ¹⁸ In that day Yahweh contracted a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I give this land, from the stream of Egypt as far as the great stream, the stream Euphrates, ¹⁹ the Cainite and the Kenizite and the Kadmonite ²⁰ and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim ²¹ and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.