Acts 7:6

New International Reader's Version

Here is what God said to him. ‘For 400 years your family after you will be strangers in a country not their own. They will be slaves and will be treated badly.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to him, “You can be sure of what I am about to tell you. For 400 years, your family who comes after you will be strangers in another country. They will become slaves there and will be treated badly.

Genesis 15:16

Your children’s grandchildren will come back here. That’s because the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached the point where I must punish them.”

Exodus 3:10

So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh. I want you to bring the Israelites out of Egypt. They are my people.”

Galatians 3:17

Here is what I mean. The law came 430 years after the promise. But the law does not get rid of God’s covenant and promise. The covenant had already been made by God. So the law does not do away with the promise.