5. And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
6. Abram believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.
7. And he said to him: I am the Lord who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to gibe thee this land, and that thou mightest possess it.
8. But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?
9. And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she goat of three years, and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon.
10. And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other; but the birds he divided not.
11. And the fowls came down upon carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12. And when the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great and darksome horror seized upon him.