Genesis 15:13

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Then the Lord said to Abram, “You should know these things: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. And the people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

After four generations your people will come to this land again. At that time, your people will defeat the Amorite people. I will use your people to punish the Amorites living here. This will be in the future, because the Amorite people are not yet evil enough to punish.”

Genesis 17:8

And I will give this land to you and to all your descendants. I will give you the land you are traveling through—the land of Canaan. I will give you this land forever. And I will be your God.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “The time of hunger is very bad in Canaan. There are no fields left with grass for our animals. So we have come to live in this land. We ask you to please let us live in Goshen.”

Psalm 105:42

God remembered his holy promise.\par God remembered the promise\par he had made to his servant Abraham.\par

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptian people decided to make life hard for the people of Israel. So the Egyptians put slave masters over the people. These masters forced the Israelites to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses for the king. The king used these cities to store grain and other things.

Exodus 1:13

So the Egyptians forced the people of Israel to work even harder.

Exodus 1:14

The Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They forced the Israelites to work very hard making bricks and mortar. They also forced them to work hard in the fields. They forced them to work very hard in everything they did.

Exodus 2:24

God heard their prayers, and he remembered the agreement he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 22:21

“Remember, in the past you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. So you should not cheat or hurt any person who is a foreigner in your land.

Exodus 23:9

“You must never do wrong things to a foreigner. Remember, at one time you were also foreigners when you lived in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 3:10

So now I am sending you to Pharaoh. Go! Lead my people, the people of Israel, out of Egypt!”

Exodus 3:17

And I have decided that I will take you from the troubles you are suffering in Egypt. I will lead you to the land that now belongs to many different people: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. I will lead you to a land filled with many good things. [25] ’

Exodus 3:8

Now I will go down and save my people from the Egyptians. I will take them from that land. And I will lead them to a good land where they can be free from troubles. [17] It is a land filled with many good things. [18] Many different people live in that land: the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Leviticus 19:34

You must treat foreigners the same as you treat your own citizens. Love foreigners like you love yourselves. Why? Because you were foreigners one time—in Egypt. I am the Lord your God!

Numbers 20:15

Many, many years ago our ancestors [271] went down into Egypt. And we lived there for many years. The people of Egypt were cruel to us.

Acts 7:17

“The number of Israelites {\cf2\super [130]} in Egypt grew. There were more and more of our people there. (The promise that God made to Abraham was soon to come true.)

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: The agreement \{that God gave to Abraham\} was made official long before the law {\cf2\super [38]} came. The law came 430 years later. So the law could not take away the agreement and change God’s promise.

Deuteronomy 10:19

So you must also love those strangers. Why? Because you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:15

Don’t forget that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt with his great power. He made you free. That is why the Lord your God commands you to always make the Sabbath [29] a special day.