Acts 7:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And God spoke to this effect, that his posterity would be aliens in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and ill-treat them 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

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years;

Genesis 15:16

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Exodus 3:10

Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.