Genesis 15:13-21 ▼

13 Then the LORD told Abram, |You can be certain about this: Your descendants will be foreigners in a land that isn't theirs. They will be slaves there and will be oppressed for 400 years.

14 However, I will judge the nation that they serve, and later they will leave there with many possessions.

15 Now as for you, you'll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age.

16 Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course.|

17 When the sun had fully set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a fiery torch passed between the animal pieces.

18 That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: |I'm giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—

19 including the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.|