7 And He said to him, “I am יהוה, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
8 And he said, “Master יהוה, whereby do I know that I possess it?”
9 And He said to him, “Bring 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 all these to Him and cut them in the middle, and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds.
11 And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Aḇram drove them away.
12 And it came to be, when the sun was going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Aḇram, that see, a frightening great darkness fell upon him.
13 And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.