NET Bible
"But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”"
— Genesis 15:8, NET Bible
“And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?”
“And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? ”
“He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"”
“But he said: Lord God, whereby may I know that I shall possess it?”
“And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?”
“And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?”
The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.
The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”
The LORD said to him,“Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”
So Abram took all these for him and then cut them in two and placed each half opposite the other, but he did not cut the birds in half.
When birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.