3 You have given me no descendants of my own, so one of my servants will be my heir.”
4 Then the lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”
5 Then the lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”
6 And Abram believed the lord, and the lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.
7 Then the lord told him, “I am the lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
8 But Abram replied, “O Sovereign lord, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”
9 The lord told 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.”