AFTER these things the Word of Yahuah came unto El-Avram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Avram: I am your shield, and your exceeding great reward.
And Avram said, Adonai Yahuah, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliy`ezer of Damascus?
And Avram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.
And, behold, the Word of Yahuah came unto him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own generation shall be your heir.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your seed be.
And he believed in Yahuah; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And he said unto him, I am Yahuah that brought you out of Ur of the Kasdiym, to give you this land to inherit it.
And he said, Adonai Yahuah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
And he said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
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.
And when the fowls came down upon the carcasses, Avram drove them away.
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Avram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Avram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Emoriym is not yet full.
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.
In the same day Yahuah cut a covenant with Avram, saying, Unto your seed have I given this land, from the river of Mitsrayim unto the great river, the river Perath:
The Qeyniyiym, and the Qenizziym, and the Qadmoniym,
And the Chittiym, and the Perizziym, and the Repha'iym,
And the Emoriym, and the Kena`aniym, and the Girgashiym, and the Yevuciym.