3. The number 318 is also the numerical value for the name Eliezer אליעזר R esh Z ayin A yin Y od L amed A leph 200 + 7 + 70 + 10 + 30 + 1 = 318 Eliezer means “God is my helper”

4. Tardemah - means trance or stunned like death תַּרְדֵּמָה This is the same word used to during the story of when God removed a rib from Adam’s side.

5.  “Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there 400 years.”  400 years to the very day that Abram made the covenant with God that the children of Israel left Egypt  Passover – when the children of Israel were spared by the blood of a lamb  2000 years later, God fulfilled his side of the covenant by sending himself to die for our sins

7. Man – Ish אִישׁ Woman – Ishah אִשָּׁה Abram – אַבְרָם ----- Abraham - אַבְרָהָם Sarai – שָׂרָי ------- Sarah – שָׂרָה Through Abraham and Sarah, God is preparing a bride for himself.