¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram^(A) and said, “To your descendants I give this land,^(B) from the Wadi^[a] of Egypt^(C) to the great river, the Euphrates^(D)—

⁴ Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon,^(A) and from the great river, the Euphrates^(B)—all the Hittite^(C) country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.^(D)