[God] saidto Abram,"Knowfor certainthat your descendantswill be strangersin a landthat is not theirs,where they will be enslavedand oppressedfourhundredyears.
"Then in the fourthgenerationthey will returnhere,for the iniquityof the Amoriteis not yetcomplete."
"I will giveto you and to your descendantsafteryou, the landof your sojournings,allthe landof Canaan,for an everlastingpossession;and I will be their God."
They saidto Pharaoh,"We have cometo sojournin the land,for thereis nopasturefor your servants'flocks,for the famineis severein the landof Canaan.Now,therefore, pleaselet your servantslivein the landof Goshen."
For He rememberedHis holyword[With] AbrahamHis servant;
So they appointedtaskmastersoverthem to afflictthem with hardlabor.And they builtfor Pharaohstoragecities,Pithomand Raamses.
The Egyptianscompelled the sonsof Israelto laborrigorously;
and they madetheir livesbitterwith hardlaborin mortarand bricksand at all[kinds] of laborin the field,alltheir laborswhichthey rigorouslyimposedon them.
So Godheardtheir groaning;and GodrememberedHis covenantwith Abraham,Isaac,and Jacob.
"You shall not wronga strangeror oppresshim, for you were strangersin the landof Egypt.
"You shall not oppressa stranger,since you yourselvesknowthe feelingsof a stranger,for you [also] were strangersin the landof Egypt.
"Therefore, comenow,and I will sendyou to Pharaoh,so that you may bringMy people,the sonsof Israel,out of Egypt."
"So I said,I will bringyou up out of the afflictionof Egyptto the landof the Canaaniteand the Hittiteand the Amoriteand the Perizziteand the Hiviteand the Jebusite,to a landflowingwith milkand honey."'
"So I have comedownto deliverthem from the powerof the Egyptians,and to bringthem up from that landto a goodand spaciousland,to a landflowingwith milkand honey,to the placeof the Canaaniteand the Hittiteand the Amoriteand the Perizziteand the Hiviteand the Jebusite.
The strangerwho resideswith you shall be to you as the nativeamongyou, and you shall lovehim as yourself, for you were aliensin the landof Egypt;I am the LORDyour God.
that our fatherswentdownto Egypt,and we stayedin Egypta longtime,and the Egyptianstreatedus and our fathersbadly.
"But as the timeof the promisewas approachingwhichGodhad assuredto Abraham,the peopleincreasedand multipliedin Egypt,
What I am sayingis this:the Law,which camefour hundredand thirtyyearslater,does not invalidatea covenantpreviously ratifiedby God,soas to nullifythe promise.
"So showyour lovefor the alien,for you were aliensin the landof Egypt.
You shall rememberthat you were a slavein the landof Egypt,and the LORDyour Godbroughtyou out of thereby a mightyhandand by an outstretchedarm;thereforethe LORDyour Godcommandedyou to observethe sabbathday.
