1. After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying,
2. And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
3. And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no descendants: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
4. And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
5. And he brought him forth outside, and said,
6. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
7. And he said unto him,
8. And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9. And he said unto him,
10. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
11. And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away.
12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
13. And he said unto Abram,
14. And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great possessions.
15. And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
16. But in the fourth generation they shall come here again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.
17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
18. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
19. The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20. And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
21. And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.