Acts 7:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And this is [in effect] what God told him: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a land belonging to other people, who would bring them into bondage and ill-treat them 400 years.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

God put it this way: “His descendants will be strangers in a land that belongs to others, who will enslave them and abuse them for four hundred years.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then God told him that his offspring would be a settler in a foreign land, and that they would subjugate them, and treat them badly, for four hundred years.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage, and treat them evil four hundred years.

Acts 7:6 Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram,  ‘Know this for certain: your offspring will be resident foreigners  for four hundred years  in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.’  ,

Exodus 3:10

therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.’

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: The law, which came 430 years later,  does not invalidate a covenant previously established by God  and thus cancel the promise.