9 The Lord told him, "Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, all of them three years old, together with a dove and a young pigeon." 10 So Abram took and killed the three animals. Then he cut them in half, and placed each half opposite the other. However, he didn’t cut the birds in half.
17 After the sun set and it grew dark, suddenly a smoking furnace and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the animal carcasses. 18 This is how the Lord made an agreement with Abram that day and promised him, "I’m giving this land to your descendants. It extends from the Wadi of Egypt15:18. "Wadi of Egypt": Not the Nile, but what is known as the Wadi Arish today. See Numbers 34:5; Joshua 15:4, Joshua 15:47. to the great Euphrates River,