Holy Scripture
Genesis 15:8
A church father on this verse
“But he said: Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it? Abraham is not to be thought to have failed in faith after he believed in God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, so as to say: Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it? For he is not seeking a sign to believe as if he were still unbel…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And he said, Master and Lord, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
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6And Abram believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.
7And he said to him, I am God that brought thee out of the land of the Chaldeans, so as to give thee this land to inherit.
— Genesis 15:8 —
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.