Genesis 15:8 DBY

⁶  And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

⁷  And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it.

⁸  And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

⁹  And he said to him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

¹⁰  And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.