Acts 7:6

New Living Translation

God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

Cross References

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

Genesis 15:16

After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”

Exodus 3:10

Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

Galatians 3:17

This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.