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Genesis 15:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

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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.

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 for ever, and I will be their God.

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.”

God never forgot his sacred promise to his servant Abraham.

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.

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.

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

Do not ill-treat or abuse foreigners who live among you. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt.

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

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

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.

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 good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

Instead, treat them as well as you treat citizens 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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




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