Genesis 15:13

New English Translation

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”

Genesis 17:8

I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”

Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

Psalm 105:42

Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.

Exodus 1:11

So they put foremen over the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:13

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

Exodus 1:14

They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

Exodus 2:24

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

Exodus 22:21

“You must not wrong a foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“You must not oppress a foreigner, since you know the life of a foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 3:10

So now go, and I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3:17

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

Exodus 3:8

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

Leviticus 19:34

The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself, because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

Acts 7:17

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

Galatians 3:17

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

Deuteronomy 10:19

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:15

Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.