1After these words the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram. I am a shield to you; your wages shall be very great."2And Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I am going childless, and the son of my house is Damascus Eliezer?"3And Abram said, "Look, to me you have not given seed, and behold, a son of my house is possessing me."4And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not possess you, but one who shall come out from your belly, he shall possess you."5And he brought him outside and said, "Look now toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "Thus shall your seed be."6And he was faithful in the LORD, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.7And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of Chaldea, to give to you this land to possess it."8And he said, "O Lord GOD, by what shall I know that I shall possess it?"9And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer and a three-year-old goat and a three-year-old ram and a turtledove and a young bird."10And he took for himself all these and cut them in the midst and gave each his part opposite his neighbor, but the bird he did not cut up.11And the bird of prey came down upon the corpses, and Abram drove them away.12And the sun was about to come in, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a great terror of darkness was falling upon him.13And he said to Abram, "Know for certain that your seed shall be a sojourner in a land not theirs, and they shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years."14And also the nation which they shall serve, I will judge; and afterward they shall come out with great property.15And you shall come to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a pleasant old age.16And the fourth generation shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.17And the sun went down and darkness came, and behold, a smoking oven and a torch of fire that passed between these pieces.18On that day the LORD cut a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates."19The Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite,20and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim,21and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.