7. Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”
8. But Abram asked, “Sovereign Lord, how can I know that it will be mine?”
9. He answered, “Bring me a cow, a goat, and a ram, each of them three years old, and a dove and a pigeon.”
10. Abram brought the animals to God, cut them in half, and placed the halves opposite each other in two rows; but he did not cut up the birds.
11. Vultures came down on the bodies, but Abram drove them off.