2But Abram replied, “O Lord God, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”[ † ]Genesis 17:18Acts 7:5 3Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”[ † ]Genesis 14:14
4Then the word of the Lord came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”[ † ]2 Samuel 7:12Galatians 4:28 5And the Lord took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”[ † ]Genesis 22:17Genesis 26:4Deuteronomy 1:10Psalms 147:4Jeremiah 33:22Exodus 32:13Romans 4:18Hebrews 11:12Genesis 17:19
6Abram believed the Lord, and it was credited to him as righteousness.[ † ]Genesis 21:1Romans 4:3-9, 22Galatians 3:6James 2:23Psalms 32:2Psalms 106:31
7The Lord also told him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”[ † ]Genesis 12:1Genesis 11:28-31Genesis 13:15-17Psalms 105:42-44
8But Abram replied, “Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it?”[ † ]Genesis 24:13-14Judges 6:36-401 Samuel 14:9-10Luke 1:18
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.[ † ]Genesis 15:17Jeremiah 34:18Leviticus 1:17 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.[ † ]Genesis 2:21Genesis 28:11Job 33:15
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.[ † ]Exodus 1:11Acts 7:6Exodus 12:40 14But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.[ † ]Exodus 6:6Exodus 12:36 15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.[ † ]Job 5:26Genesis 25:8Genesis 47:30 16In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”[ † ]Genesis 15:13Exodus 12:41Genesis 48:22Leviticus 18:24-281 Kings 21:261 Kings 11:12Matthew 23:32
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.[ † ]Jeremiah 34:18-19 18On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—[ † ]Genesis 24:7Genesis 12:7Genesis 17:8Exodus 23:31Numbers 34:3Deuteronomy 11:24Joshua 1:4Joshua 21:43Acts 7:5 19the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”