And after these words came of the lord to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear Abram, I will shield you. Your wage much
says Master, O lord, what will you give to me, for I am wasting away childless, but the son of Masek of my native-born maid servant, this Damascus Eliezer is heir?
And Abram said, Since to me you gave not a seed, then my native-born servant will be heir to me.
And straightly of the lord came to him, saying, will not another will come forth from you, this one will be heir to you.
And he led him outside, and said to him, Look up indeed into the heaven, and count out the stars, if you are able to count them! And he said, Thus will be your seed.
And Abram trusted in God, and it was imputed to him for righteousness.
And he said to him, I am the God leading you from out of of the Chaldeans, so as to give to you this land to inherit.
And he said, Master, O lord, how will I know that I will inherit it?
And he said to him, Take for me a heifer being three years old, and a goat being three years old, and a ram being three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon!
And he took to himself all these, and he divided them in the middle, and put them facing one another; but the birds he did not divide.
came down upon the bodies and sat down
And about of the sun a change of state fell upon Abram. And behold, fear fell upon him.
And it was said to Abram, you will know that a sojourner in a land not and they will enslave them, and will afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
But the nation which ever they may be slave to, I will judge. And after these things they shall come forth here with belongings
But you shall go forth to your fathers with peace, being entombed in old age
And the fourth generation shall return here, for not yet have been filled up unto the present.
And when the sun was in descent, a flame came, and behold, smoking; and of fire which went through in the midst of these pieces.
In that day a covenant with Abram, saying, your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt unto the river of the great Euphrates,
the Kenites, and the Kennizzites, and the Kadmonites,
and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Raphaim,
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.