Genesis 15:13

God's Word

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.

Cross References

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.”

Genesis 17:8

I am also giving this land where you are living—all of Canaan—to you and your descendants as your permanent possession. And I will be your God.”

Genesis 47:4

We have come to live in this land for a while. The famine is so severe in Canaan that there’s no pasture for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”

Psalm 105:42

He remembered his holy promise to his servant Abraham.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers in charge of them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:13

So they forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter with back-breaking work in mortar and bricks and every kind of work in the fields. All the jobs the Egyptians gave them were brutally hard.

Exodus 2:24

God heard their groaning, and he remembered his promise  to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 22:21

“Never mistreat or oppress foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“Never oppress foreigners. You know what it’s like to be foreigners because you were foreigners living in Egypt.

Exodus 3:10

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

Exodus 3:17

I promise I will take you away from your misery in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

Exodus 3:8

I have come to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good land with plenty of room ⌞for everyone⌟. It is a land flowing with milk and honey where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.

Leviticus 19:34

Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 20:15

Our ancestors went to Egypt, and we lived there for many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

Acts 7:17

“When the time that God had promised to Abraham had almost come, the number of our people in Egypt had grown very large.

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⌟.

Deuteronomy 10:19

So you should love foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:15

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God used his mighty hand and powerful arm to bring you out of there. This is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the day of rest as a holy day.