7. He then said to him: I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as a possession.
8. “Lord God,” he asked, “how will I know that I will possess it?”
9. He answered 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. He brought him all these, split them in two, and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut up.
11. Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram scared them away.
12. As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a great, dark dread descended upon him.
13. Then the Lord said to Abram: Know for certain that your descendants will reside as aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.