2. Then Abram said, “O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus.”
3. And Abram said, “Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, a member of my household is my heir.”
4. And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him saying, “This person will not be your heir, but your own son will be your heir.”
5. And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6. And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
7. And he said to him, “I am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it.”
8. And he said, “O Yahweh God, how shall I know that I will possess it?”
9. And he said to him, “Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
10. And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite the other, but the birds he did not cut.
11. And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
12. And it happened that, as the sun went down, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.