Genesis 15:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.’

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking fire-pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,