The Weaning of Isaac

The Start of the 400 Years of Affliction

God promised Abraham that he and his posterity would live for four centuries in a land that was not theirs and that they would be afflicted for 400 years.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a …