¹² As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,^(A) and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years^(B) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved^(C) and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out^(D) with great possessions.^{(E) 15} You, however, will go to your ancestors^(F) in peace and be buried at a good old age.^{(G) 16} In the fourth generation^(H) your descendants will come back here,^(I) for the sin of the Amorites^(J) has not yet reached its full measure.”

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch^(K) appeared and passed between the pieces.^(L)