9. He answered, “Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10. Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
11. Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.
12. When the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and fear and terror came over him.
13. The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for 400 years.
14. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and when they leave that foreign land, they will take great wealth with them.
15. You yourself will live to a ripe old age, die in peace, and be buried.
16. It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”
17. When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch suddenly appeared and passed between the pieces of the animals.