Matthew(i)
8 And he sayed: Lord God, wherby shall I knowe that I shall possesse it?
9 And he sayed vnto hym: Take an heyfer of thre yere olde, & a she gote of thre yere old, & a thre yere old ram, a turtyll doue, & a yong pigion.
10 And he toke all these & deuided them in the middes, and layed euery pece one agaynst an other. But the foules deuided he not.
11 And the birdes fell one the carcases, but Abram droue them away.
12 And when the sunne was downe, ther fell a slumbre vpon Abram. And loo, feare and greate darckenes came vpon him.
13 And he sayd vnto Abram: know this of a surety that thy sede shall be a stranger in a lande that perteyneth not vnto them. And they shall make bondmen of them & entreate them euell .iiij. hundred yeares.
14 But the nacion whom they shal serue, wyll I iudge. And after warde shall they come out wyth great substance.
15 Neuerthelesse, thou shalt go vnto thy fathers in peace, & shalt be buryed when thou arte of a good age:
16 and in the fourth generation they shall come hyther agayne, for the wickednesse of the Amorites is not yet full.
17 When the sonne was downe and it was waxed darcke: beholde, ther was a smokyng furnesse, and a fyrebrand that went betwene the sayde peces.