¹¹ Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses,^(A) but Abram drove them away.

¹² As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep,^(B) and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. ¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years^(C) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved^(D) and mistreated there.