8. But Abram said, ‘Sovereign Lord, how can I know that I shall gain possession of it?’
9. So the Lord said to him, ‘Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.’
10. Abram brought all these to him, cut them in two and arranged the halves opposite each other; the birds, however, he did not cut in half.
11. Then birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.