Acts 7:17

New American Bible - revised edition

“When the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God pledged to Abraham, the people had increased and become very numerous in Egypt,

Cross References

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired holdings, were fertile, and multiplied greatly.

Exodus 1:20

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and grew very numerous.

Acts 13:17

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and exalted the people during their sojourn in the land of Egypt. With uplifted arm he led them out of it

Acts 7:6

And God spoke thus, ‘His descendants shall be aliens in a land not their own, where they shall be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years;