Holy Scripture
Genesis 15:11
A church father on this verse
“(Verses 10, 11.) And he placed them opposite each other: but he did not separate the birds. However, birds descended upon the carcasses and the divisions thereof, and Abram drove them away. It does not pertain to the present work to explain the sacrament. We only say this, because the Hebrew version has for these word…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.
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In context
9And he said to him, Take for me a heifer in her third year, and a she-goat in her third year, and a ram in his third year, and a dove and a pigeon.
10So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.
— Genesis 15:11 —
12And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
13And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.