Acts 7:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

God said that Abraham's descendants would live for a while in a foreign land. There they would be slaves and would be ill-treated four hundred 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 four hundred years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.

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.

Galatians 3:17

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