11. And birds descended upon the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a dread, great and dark, invaded him.
13. And it was said to him: "Know beforehand that your future offspring will be sojourners in a land not their own, and they will subjugate them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years.
14. Yet truly, I will judge the nation that they will serve, and after this they will depart with great substance.
15. But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
16. But in the fourth generation, they will return here. For the iniquities of the Amorites are not yet completed, even to this present time."
17. Then, when the sun had set, there came a dark mist, and there appeared a smoking furnace and a lamp of fire passing between those divisions.