Study Desk

Now when the sun was going down, ^(o)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, ^[p]terror and great darkness fell upon him.

God said to Abram, "Know for certain that ^(p)your ^[q]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, ^[r]where ^(q)they will be enslaved and oppressed ^(r)four hundred years.

But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out ^(s)with ^[s]many possessions.

As for you, ^(t)you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

Then in ^(u)the fourth generation they will return here, for ^(v)the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete."

It came about when the sun had set, that it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which ^(w)passed between these pieces.

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "^(x)To your ^[t]descendants I have given this land, From ^(y)the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

^(z)the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite

and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim

and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite."