5 He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”d

6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.e

7 He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”f

8 But he said, “Lord God, how can I knowg that I will possess it?”

9 He said to him, “Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”

10 So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birdsh in half. 11 Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. 12 As the sun was setting, a deep sleepi came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.