1. Now the LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.

2. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

3. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."

4. So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

5. Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

6. Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land.

7. The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring."He built an altar there to The LORD, who had appeared to him.

7. He said to Abram, "I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."

8. He said, "Lord God, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

9. He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

10. He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

11. The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

12. When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

13. He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

14. I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

15. but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

16. In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."

17. It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

18. In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

19. the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,

20. the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

21. the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

"Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, 'ABRAHAM was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.'