He said to Avram, *Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
When Ya`akov was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moshe and Aharon, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.