Genesis 15
God tells Abram that he will give him a great reward.
But Abram asks him - What good is a reward if there is none to inherit from me ?
God answers him that the number of his descendants will be more than the stars in the sky.
Abram again asks him - How will I know ?
God asks him to bring a cow, goat and ram - each 3 years old and a dove and a pigeon.
Abram brings these, cuts the animals and places them in the altar. He doesn't cut the birds. He goes off to a deep sleep. When he wakes up, he hears God talking. "Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years" [15:13]
After the sun sets and it becomes dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch suddenly appears and passes between the pieces of the animals.God makes a covenant with Abram that he promises to give Abram and his descendants the land from the border of Egypt across the whole land he sees.
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