World English Bible
"He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?""
— Genesis 15:8, World English 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? ”
“But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess 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?”
Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
He said to him, "I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it."
He said, "Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?"
He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.