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.