13-15 Then the Lord said:Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace.But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for 400 years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.
16 Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.
17 Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot and a flaming fire passed between the two halves of each animal.
18 At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him:I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
19 They will possess the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaites,
21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.