⁷ Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, ^(A)“All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” ^8 (B)And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

⁹ He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ And he brought him all these, ^(A)cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But ^(B)he did not cut the birds in half. ¹¹ And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

¹² As the sun was going down, a ^(C)deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain ^(D)that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and ^(E)they will be afflicted for ^(F)four hundred years. ¹⁴ But ^(G)I will bring judgement on the nation that they serve, and afterwards ^(H)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; ^(I)you shall be buried in a good old age. ¹⁶ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for ^(J)the iniquity of the Amorites ^(K)is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ^(L)“To your offspring I give^[a] this land, from ^(M)the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,