Genesis 15:8-17

⁸But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”

⁹And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”

¹⁰So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.

¹¹And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

¹²As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.

¹³Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

¹⁴But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

¹⁵You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.

¹⁶In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

¹⁷When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

— Genesis 15:8-17

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Cross References for Genesis 15:8-17

• Jeremiah 34:18-19
• Acts 7:6-7
• 1 Kings 21:26
• Job 5:26
• Daniel 8:23
• Nehemiah 9:9-11
• Genesis 25:7-9
• Luke 1:18
• 2 Chronicles 34:28
• Genesis 2:21

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