Genesis 15:15-17

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¹⁵“You yourself will live to be very old. You will die in peace and will be buried with your family. ¹⁶After four generations your people will come to this land again and defeat the Amorites. That will happen in the future because the Amorites are not yet guilty enough to lose their land.”

¹⁷After the sun went down, it got very dark. The dead animals were still on the ground, each animal cut into two pieces. Then a smoking firepot^[a] and a flaming torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.^[b]

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Footnotes

Genesis 15:17 firepot A clay pot in which burning coals were placed to be used for starting new fires.
Genesis 15:17 passed between … animals This showed that God “signed” or “sealed” the agreement he made with Abram. People showed that they were sincere in making an agreement by walking between the parts of animals that had been cut into pieces and saying something like, “May this same thing happen to me if I don’t keep the agreement.”