Text -- Genesis 15:17 (NET)

15:17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, a smoking firepot with a flaming torch passed between the animal parts.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 15:17

¹ sn A smoking pot with a flaming torch. These same implements were used in Mesopotamian rituals designed to ward off evil (see E. A. Speiser, Genesis [AB], 113-14).

² tn Heb “these pieces.”