There, God makes a covenant with Abram, promising that his descendants shall be as numerous as the stars, but that people will suffer oppression in a foreign land for four hundred years, after which they will inherit the land "from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates".
Gud danner en pagt med Abram, og lover at Abrams efterkommere skal blive så talrige som stjernerne på himlen, at de skal lide under et undertrykkende regime i et fremmed land i fire hundrede år, men at de skal arve landet "... fra Ægyptens flod til den store flod, Eufratfloden ..." (1 Mos 15).