¹⁶ In the fourth generation^(A) your descendants will come back here,^(B) for the sin of the Amorites^(C) has not yet reached its full measure.”

¹⁷ When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch^(D) appeared and passed between the pieces.^{(E) 18} On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram^(F) and said, “To your descendants I give this land,^(G) from the Wadi^[a] of Egypt^(H) to the great river, the Euphrates^(I)—