Abram
God's covenant to Abram.
After they left Egypt with all that the Pharoah had given them, Abram and Lot became very wealthy. Now they needed a new home and land to settle. So to accommodate all of their live stocks, Lot and Abram went in separate directions. Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley to the east and lived near the city of Sodom, a place full of wicket people who always sinned against God. Abram settled in the land of Canaan.
Then later, God spoke to him and said, (Genesis 13:14-16) “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted!
But Abram complained to God and said, “what good are these promises and blessings when I have no son?” So God brought him out into the night and said, (Genesis 15:5) “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
Meaning Abram will have so many descendants that he won’t be able to count them all. Abram had great faith in God and believed his every word; at the same time, he was a righteous person, which is why God chose Abram.
One night, God comes to him in a dream and predicts the slavery of his descendant in Egypt for 400 years. At the same time, God makes a covenant to give Abram’s descendants land, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River.
Holy Bible
Abraham (Genesis 13-15)
Ｇｅｎｅｓｉｓ 13：1－17
(New Living Translation – NLT)
Abram goes back to the Land of Canaan.
So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned. (Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.) From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.
Lot, who was traveling with Abram, had also become very wealthy with flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and many tents. But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together. So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)
Finally Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives! The whole countryside is open to you. Take your choice of any section of the land you want, and we will separate. If you want the land to the left, then I’ll take the land on the right. If you prefer the land on the right, then I’ll go to the left.”
Lot took a long look at the fertile plains of the Jordan Valley in the direction of Zoar. The whole area was well watered everywhere, like the garden of the Lord or the beautiful land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan Valley to the east of them. He went there with his flocks and servants and parted company with his uncle Abram. So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain. But the people of this area were extremely wicked and constantly sinned against the Lord.
God shows Abram that many descendants will come from him.
After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west. I am giving all this land, as far as you can see, to you and your descendants as a permanent possession. And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted! Go and walk through the land in every direction, for I am giving it to you.”
Source: Bible Gateway
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+13%3A1-17&version=NLT
Ｇｅｎｅｓｉｓ 15：2－21
(New Living Translation – NLT)
God promises Abram a son.
But Abram replied, “O Sovereign Lord, what good are all your blessings when I don’t even have a son? Since you’ve given me no children, Eliezer of Damascus, a servant in my household, will inherit all my wealth. You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”
Then the Lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.” Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
God predicts the enslavement of Abram’s descendants for 400 years in Egypt.
As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him. Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth. (As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.) After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”
The Lord made a covenant with Abram.
After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River— the land now occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
Source: Bible Gateway
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+15%3A2-21&version=NLT