1After these things Davar Yahweh [Word of He sustains breathing] came to Avram [Exalted father] in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Avram [Exalted father]. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

2Avram [Exalted father] said, “'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh], what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus [Bucket of blood]?”

3Avram [Exalted father] said, “Behold, to me you have given no children: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

4Behold, Adonai’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

5Adonai brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, ⁵²if you are able to count them.” He said to Avram [Exalted father], “So will your offspring be.” ⁵³

6He trusted in Adonai , who credited it to him for righteousness. ⁵⁴(6)

7He said to Avram [Exalted father], “I am Adonai who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.”

8He said, “'Adonay Adonai [Lord Yahweh], how will I know that I will inherit it?”

9He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.

11The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Avram [Exalted father] drove them away.

12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Avram [Exalted father]. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

13He said to Avram [Exalted father], “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth, ⁵⁵

15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

16In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the depravity (moral evil) of the Amorite [Descendants of Talkers] is not yet full.”

17It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

18In that day Adonai made a covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with Avram [Exalted father], saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt [Abode of slavery] to the great river, the river Euphrates [Fruitful]:

19the Kenites [Descendants of Acquisition], the Kenezites [Descendants of Purchase], the Kadmonites [Descendants of Ancients, Chiefs],

20the Hittites [Descendants of Trembling fear], the Perizzites [Descendants of Belonging to village], the Rephaim [Descendants of Terrible one],

21the Amorites [Descendants of Talkers], the Canaanites [Descendants of Humbled], the Girgashites [Descendants of Who arrives from pilgrimage], and the Jebusites [Descendants of Thresher].”