5. The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”
6. Abram put his trust in the Lord, and because of this the Lord was pleased with him and accepted him.
7. Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
8. But Abram asked, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?”