6. And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7. And he said to him, “I am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it.”
8. And he said, “O Yahweh God, how shall I know that I will possess it?”
9. And he said to him, “Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
10. And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite the other, but the birds he did not cut.