Genesis 15:12-16

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¹² As the sun was ·going down [setting], Abram fell into a deep sleep. While he was asleep, a very ·terrible [or frightening] darkness came. ¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your ·descendants [^Lseed] will be ·strangers [sojourners; wanderers; resident aliens] in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves and ·be cruel to [oppress] them for four hundred years. ¹⁴ But I will ·punish [judge] the nation ·where they are slaves [^Lwhich they serve]. Then your ·descendants [^Lseed] will leave that land, taking great ·wealth [possessions] with them. ¹⁵ And you, Abram, will ·die [^Lgo to your fathers/ancestors] in peace and will be buried at an old age. ¹⁶ ·After your great-great-grandchildren are born [^LAfter the fourth generation], ·your people [^Lthey] will come ·to this land [^Lhere] again. It will take that long, because ·I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior [^Tthe iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete; ^CAmorites is one name for the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Canaan].”