Acts 7:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

God said Abraham's descendants would live for a while in a foreign land. There they would be slaves and would be mistreated 400 years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

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.

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.

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.

Exodus 3:10

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