In this chapter, Avraham challenges God.

He says - You promised me offspring, and yet I cannot have children! - You promised a land. How will that ever happen?

Avraham asks for assurances from God.

And God understands that Avraham needs that reassurance.

God offers a Brit - a pact, a contract, a covenant - and this covenant has some interesting imagery - animals cut in two, birds of prey, fire and smoke, a sky filled with stars. What does it all mean?

Today we explore this dramatic exchange, and the meaning behind the imagery.