Acts 7:6 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁶ And God had spoken about this [beforehand] by saying that Abraham’s descendants would live in a foreign country and that they would [eventually] be ill-treated as slaves for four hundred years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

Galatians 3:17

Here is what I am saying: The Agreement originally made by God [with Abraham], with its attending promises, was not canceled when the Law of Moses was given some four hundred and thirty years later.