New Revised Standard Version
He brought him all these and cut them in two, laying each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.

Contemporary English Version
Abram obeyed the LORD. Then he cut the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half.

New American Bible
He brought him all these, split them in two, and placed each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.

And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the two pieces of each one against the other: but the birds he divided not.

divided them.

Jeremiah 34:18,19 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, and have not performed the words of the covenant which they agreed to in my presence, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts thereof: . . .

2 Timothy 2:15 Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

the birds.

Leviticus 1:17 And he shall break the pinions thereof, and shall not cut, nor divide it with a knife: and shall burn it upon the altar, putting fire under the wood. It is a holocaust and oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord.