Genesis 15:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Psalm 105:42

For he remembered his holy promise and Abraham, his servant.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians subjected the Israelites to hard servitude

Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard servitude in mortar and bricks and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them.

Exodus 2:24

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

Exodus 22:21

“You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

“You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 3:10

Now go, I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

Exodus 3:17

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

Exodus 3:8

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

Leviticus 19:34

The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Numbers 20:15

how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians oppressed us and our ancestors,

Acts 7:17

“But as the time drew near for the fulfillment of the promise that God had made to Abraham, our people in Egypt increased and multiplied

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Deuteronomy 10:19

You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 5:15

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.