Acts 7:6 - Easy To Read Version

⁶ This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants {\cf2\super [123]} will live in another country. They will be strangers. The people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And this is [in effect] what God told him: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a land belonging to other people, who would bring them into bondage and ill-treat them 400 years.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

Common English Bible

⁶ God put it this way: “His descendants will be strangers in a land that belongs to others, who will enslave them and abuse them for four hundred years.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Then God told him that his offspring would be a settler in a foreign land, and that they would subjugate them, and treat them badly, for four hundred years.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage, and treat them evil four hundred years.

Acts 7:6 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You should know these things: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. And the people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

Genesis 15:16

After four generations your people will come to this land again. At that time, your people will defeat the Amorite people. I will use your people to punish the Amorites living here. This will be in the future, because the Amorite people are not yet evil enough to punish.”

Exodus 3:10

So now I am sending you to Pharaoh. Go! Lead my people, the people of Israel, out of Egypt!”

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: The agreement \{that God gave to Abraham\} was made official long before the law {\cf2\super [38]} came. The law came 430 years later. So the law could not take away the agreement and change God’s promise.