Acts 7:6

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
  • Exod 12:40-41 : 40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

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    7And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

    8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

    9And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

  • Gen 15:13-14
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    13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

    14and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

  • Acts 7:17-19
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    17But as the time of the promise drew nigh which God vouchsafed unto Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

    18till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

    19The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

  • Exod 6:4-5
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    4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

    5And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Exod 12:40-41
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    40Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

    41And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:3-5
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    3and said unto him, Get thee out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

    4Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, [God] removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:

    5and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.

  • Gen 26:3-4
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    3sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

    4and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

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    4and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.

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    6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

  • Exod 32:13
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    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Exod 1:10
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    10come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

  • Gen 17:7-9
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    7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.

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    9And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations.

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    13And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

  • Deut 4:37
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    37And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    11Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

    12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

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    21then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

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    12When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

  • Exod 6:8-10
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    8And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.

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    7And they said unto him, Wherefore speaketh my lord such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

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    16And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

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    4But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.

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    17He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:

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