Holy Scripture
Genesis 15:18
A church father on this verse
“Foreign peoples are given to Abraham as though for education and so that the most scrupulous mind of the just person might cut away their vices and correct their errors. But what is most evident here is rather the mystery of the church. Through its apostles, "who are Israelites, to whom belong the patriarchs," and fro…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates.
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16And in the fourth generation they shall return hither, for the sins of the Amorites are not yet filled up, even until now.
17And when the sun was about to set, there was a flame, and behold a smoking furnace and lamps of fire, which passed between these divided pieces.
— Genesis 15:18 —
19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,