Genesis 15:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant, born in my house, shall be my heir.

⁴ And immediately the word of the Lord came to him, saying: He shall not be thy heir: but he that shall come out of thy bowels, him shalt thou have for thy heir.

⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.