Genesis 15:13

Modern English Version

Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Cross References

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their labor. They built for Pharaoh storage cities: Pithom and Rameses.

Acts 7:17

“When the time of the promise drew near, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt

Galatians 3:17

And this I say, that the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul the covenant that was ratified by God in Christ, so as to nullify the promise.

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Genesis 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Deuteronomy 10:19

Therefore, love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

Also you shall not oppress a foreigner, for you know the life of a foreigner, seeing you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:21

You must neither wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians made the Israelites to serve with rigor,

Exodus 2:24

God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Exodus 3:8

Therefore, I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:10

Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring forth My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3:17

Therefore, I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

Deuteronomy 5:15

Remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Psalm 105:42

For He remembered His holy promise, and Abraham His servant.

Exodus 1:14

and they made their lives bitter with hard service—in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. In all their service they made them serve with rigor.

Numbers 20:15

how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians distressed us and our fathers.