When the Lord came to me in a vision, He told me that He was my shield and my great reward. I doubted God because I was childless and I thought my servant Eliezer would be my heir. But, the Lord promised to me that Eliezer would not be my heir and that my heir would be my own son who is my own flesh and blood. God told me to go outside and look up into the night sky. He told me to count the stars in the sky and He said that was going to be the number of descendants I would have. The Lord also told me that my descendants would be strangers in a unknown country and they would be enslaved there for 400 years. God said He would punish the nation they served as slaves and that they would come out of the land with great pocessions. He said that I would be buried at a good old age and then He made a covenant promising that my descendants would be given the land from the River of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
