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Acts 7:6

4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.

5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised to give possession of the land to Abraham and his descendants, even though he did not yet have a child.

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

7 ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
KJV
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
WEB
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
ASV
And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.
DARBY
And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
BLB
And God spoke thus, that his seed will be a sojourner in a strange land, and they will enslave it and will mistreat [it] four hundred years.
ÅB
Og Gud talte slik: Hans slekt skal bo i utlendighet i et fremmed land, og de skal holde den som slaver og mishandle den i fire hundre år;
OTB
Gud talte slik: ‘Dine etterkommere vil være fremmede i et land som ikke er deres eget, og de vil bli slaver og mishandlet i fire hundre år.
B1930
Og Gud talte således: Hans ætt skal bo i utlendighet i et fremmed land, og de skal holde den i trældom og mishandle den i fire hundre år;

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Cross references

  • Genesis 15:13

    Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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  • Exodus 12:40–41

    Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

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  • Galatians 3:17

    What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

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  • Genesis 15:16

    In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

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