Genesis 15:5-11

New King James Version

⁵ Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and ^(A)count the ^(B)stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, ^(C)“So shall your ^(D)descendants be.”

⁶ And he ^(E)believed in the Lord, and He ^(F)accounted it to him for righteousness.

⁷ Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who ^(G)brought you out of ^(H)Ur of the Chaldeans, ^(I)to give you this land to inherit it.”

⁸ And he said, “Lord God, ^(J)how shall I know that I will inherit it?”

⁹ So He said to him, “Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ Then he brought all these to Him and ^(K)cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut ^(L)the birds in two. ¹¹ And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.