Acts 7:6

God's Word

God told Abraham that his descendants would be foreigners living in another country and that the people there would make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

God said to Abram, “You can know for sure that your descendants will live in a land that is not their own, where they will be slaves, and they will be oppressed for 400 years.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, because the sin of the Amorites will not have run its course until then.”

Exodus 3:10

Now, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you can bring my people Israel out of Egypt.”

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: The laws ⌞given to Moses⌟ 430 years after God had already put his promise ⌞to Abraham⌟ into effect didn’t cancel the promise ⌞to Abraham⌟.