Genesis 15:12-18

Genesis 15:12-18 CSB

As the sun was setting, a deep sleep  came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him. Then the Lord said to Abram,  “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens  for four hundred years  in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.  However, I will judge the nation they serve,  and afterward they will go out with many possessions.  But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.  In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”  , When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring,  from the Brook of Egypt  to the great river, the Euphrates River: