CLV(i)
8 And saying is he, "My Lord Yahweh, whereby am I to know that I am to enjoy its tenancy?
9 And saying is He to him, "Take for Me a heifer in her third year, and a goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a turtledove, and a fledgling.
10 And taking is he for Him all these and sundering them is he in the midst, and is putting each sundered part to meet its associate.
11 Yet the birds he did not sunder. And descending are the birds of prey on the severed cadavers, yet Abram is sitting by and turning them back.
12 And, at the coming of the setting of the sun, a stupor falls on Abram. And, behold! The dread of a great darkness is falling on him.
13 And saying is He to Abram, "Knowing, yea, knowing are you that a sojourner is your seed to become in a land not theirs, and they are to serve them. Yet evil shall they do to them and humiliate them four hundred years.
14 Moreover, also, the nation which they are serving will I adjudicate. And afterward they are to fare forth hither with great goods.
15 Yet you shall come to your forefathers in peace, and be entombed at a good grey-haired age.
16 And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the depravity of the Amorites has not been repaid hitherto.
17 When the sun comes to set, and twilight comes, then, behold, a smoking stove, and a torch of fire which passes between these severed parts.