Thomson(i)
8 Whereupon he said, sovereign Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
9 And the Lord said to him, "Take for me a heifer of three years old and a she goat three years old and a ram three years old and a turtle dove and a pidgeon."
10 So he took for him all these and divided them in halves and placed the halves opposite to one another, but the birds he did not divide;
11 but the birds alighted on the carcases, on the two halves of them, and Abram sat down with them.
12 And at the going down of the sun an ecstacy came on Abram, and lo! a great gloomy horror falleth upon him,
13 and it was said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed shall sojourn in a land not their own. And they shall be enslaved and afflicted and humbled. Four hundred years.
14 But the nation which they shall serve I will judge. And after that they shall come out hither with much wealth.
15 Thou indeed shalt go to thy fathers in peace, having been nourished in a good old age.
16 And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full.
17 And as the sun was setting there was a flash of fire, and lo! a smoking furnace and lamps of fire passed between the halved parts.