Genesis 15:13

Good News Translation

The Lord said to him, “Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land; they will be slaves there and will be treated cruelly for four hundred years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 47:4

“We have come to live in this country, because in the land of Canaan the famine is so severe that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.”

Psalm 105:42

He remembered his sacred promise to Abraham his servant.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians put slave drivers over them to crush their spirits with hard labor. The Israelites built the cities of Pithom and Rameses to serve as supply centers for the king.

Exodus 1:13

and made their lives miserable by forcing them into cruel slavery. They made them work on their building projects and in their fields, and they had no pity on them.

Exodus 2:24

who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 22:21

“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner; remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“Do not mistreat a foreigner; you know how it feels to be a foreigner, because you were foreigners in Egypt.

Exodus 3:10

Now I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his country.”

Exodus 3:17

I have decided that I will bring them out of Egypt, where they are being treated cruelly, and will take them to a rich and fertile land—the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:8

and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live.

Leviticus 19:34

Treat them as you would an Israelite, and love them as you love yourselves. Remember that you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated our ancestors and us,

Acts 7:17

“When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.

Galatians 3:17

What I mean is that God made a covenant with Abraham and promised to keep it. The Law, which was given four hundred and thirty years later, cannot break that covenant and cancel God's promise.

Deuteronomy 10:19

So then, show love for those foreigners, because you were once foreigners in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:15

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and that I, the Lord your God, rescued you by my great power and strength. That is why I command you to observe the Sabbath.