Genesis 15:17-19

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot^[a] and a flaming fire passed between the two halves of each animal. ¹⁸^(A) At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him:

I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River^[b] on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River. ¹⁹They will possess the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

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Footnotes

15.17 smoking cooking pot: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text. The smoke and fire represent the presence of the Lord.
15.18 Shihor River: See Joshua 13.2-7.