8 “Lord God,” he asked, “how will I know that I will possess it?”
9 He answered him: Bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
10 He brought him all these, split them in two, and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut up.
11 Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram scared them away.
12 As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great, dark dread descended upon him.
13 Then the Lord said to Abram: Know for certain that your descendants will reside as aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
14 But I will bring judgment on the nation they must serve, and after this they will go out with great wealth.