Genesis 15:13

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

Then the Lord said: Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace. But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for 400 years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians put slave bosses in charge of the people of Israel and tried to wear them down with hard work. Those bosses forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses, where the king could store his supplies.

Acts 7:17

Finally, the time came for God to do what he had promised Abraham. By then the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.

Galatians 3:17

What I am saying is that the Law cannot change or cancel God's promise made 430 years before the Law was given.

Leviticus 19:34

Instead, treat them as well as you treat your own people and love them as much as you love yourself. Remember, you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Genesis 17:8

I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.

Deuteronomy 10:19

And you should also care for them, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

Don't mistreat foreigners. You were foreigners in Egypt, and you know what it is like.

Exodus 22:21

Do not mistreat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt.

Genesis 15:16

Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.

Genesis 47:4

But in our country all the pastures are dried up, and our sheep have no grass to eat. So we, your servants, have come here. Please let us live in the region of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:13

and made them work so hard

Exodus 2:24

and God heard their loud cries. He did not forget the promise he had made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is a lot of good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Exodus 3:10

Now go to the king! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.

Exodus 3:17

and I promise to lead them out of their troubles. I will give them a land rich with milk and honey, where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Deuteronomy 5:15

This special day of rest will remind you that I reached out my mighty arm and rescued you from slavery in Egypt.

Psalm 105:42

God never forgot his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

Exodus 1:14

that their lives were miserable. The Egyptians were cruel to the people of Israel and forced them to make bricks and to mix mortar and to work in the fields.

Numbers 20:15

Our ancestors settled in Egypt and lived there a long time. But later the Egyptians were cruel to us,