God's Covenant with Abram

15 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: ^(A)“Fear not, Abram, I am ^(B)your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

⁶ And ^(A)he believed the Lord, and ^(B)he counted it to him as righteousness.

⁷ And he said to him, “I am the Lord who ^(C)brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans ^(D)to give you this land to possess.” ⁸ But he said, “O Lord God, ^(E)how am I to know that I shall possess it?” ⁹ He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” ¹⁰ And he brought him all these, ^(F)cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But ^(G)he did not cut the birds in half.

¹⁷ When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.