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But Abram said, “Lord [a]God, by what [proof] will I know that I will inherit it?” So God said to 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 So Abram brought all these to Him and [b]cut them down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:8 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord.
  2. Genesis 15:10 This was preparation for an ancient ceremony that formally bound two parties to an agreement or covenant (v 18). Reference is made to the ceremony in Jer 34:18, but details are not given elsewhere in Scripture.

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