⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and ^(A)cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut ^(B)the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

¹² Now when the sun was going down, ^(C)a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. ¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(D)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(E)they will afflict them four hundred years. ¹⁴ And also the nation whom they serve ^(F)I will judge; afterward ^(G)they shall come out with great possessions. ¹⁵ Now as for you, ^(H)you shall ^[a]go ^(I)to your fathers in peace; ^(J)you shall be buried at a good old age. ¹⁶ But ^(K)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity ^(L)of the Amorites ^(M)is not yet complete.”

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when the sun went down and it was dark, that behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that ^(N)passed between those pieces.

⁵ Then he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered ^(A)burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. ⁶ And Moses ^(B)took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. ⁷ Then he ^(C)took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” ⁸ And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is ^(D)the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

¹⁹ For when Moses had spoken every ^[a]precept to all the people according to the law, ^(A)he took the blood of calves and goats, ^(B)with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,