Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them, so shall your offspring be.
Genesis 15:1-21
Okay, but how can I know that I will gain possession of it?
Bring me a heifer, a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.
Abraham then proceeded to cut the animals into two halves, but he did not cut the birds in half.
To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[ of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.