Genesis 15:17 meaning and explanation

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

Genesis 15:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Abram has cut the animals in two and laid the halves opposite each other, the way covenant partners would walk between them to invoke a curse on themselves if they broke faith. But Abram is asleep in the darkness, and it is God alone who passes through as a smoking firepot and flaming torch.

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