Genesis 15:13

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians decided to make life hard for the Israelites, so they 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.

Acts 7:17

“The number of our people 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 came. The law came 430 years later. So the law could not take away the agreement and change God’s promise.

Leviticus 19:34

You must treat them the same as you treat your own citizens. Love them as you love yourselves. Remember, you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God!

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.”

Deuteronomy 10:19

So you must also love them, because you yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“You must never do wrong things to a foreigner. Remember, you know what it is like to be a foreigner because at one time you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:21

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

Genesis 15:16

After four generations your people will come to this land again and defeat the Amorites. That will happen in the future because the Amorites are not yet guilty enough to lose their land.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “The famine 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.”

Exodus 1:13

So the Egyptians made them work even harder.

Exodus 2:24

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

Exodus 3:8

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

Exodus 3:10

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

Exodus 3:17

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

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 and made you free. That is why the Lord your God commands you to always make the Sabbath a special day.

Psalm 105:42

The Lord remembered his holy promise that he had made to his servant Abraham.

Exodus 1:14

They made life hard for the Israelites. They forced the Israelites to work hard at making bricks and mortar and to work hard in the fields. The Egyptians showed no mercy in all the hard work they made the Israelites do!

Numbers 20:15

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