Exodus 12:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;
  • Acts 7:6 : 6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.
  • Acts 13:17 : 17 The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.
  • Gal 3:16-17 : 16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ. 17 Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
  • Gen 12:1-3 : 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: 3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

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    41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

    42 It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of Israel, through all their generations.

  • Exod 12:39
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    39 And they made unleavened cakes from the paste which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.

  • Acts 7:6
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    6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • Acts 13:18
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    18 And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

  • Gen 15:13
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    13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

  • Exod 16:35
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    35 And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

  • Num 20:15
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    15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we were living in Egypt for a long time; and the Egyptians were cruel to us and to our fathers:

  • Ezek 29:11-13
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    11 No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.

    12 I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

    13 For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

    13 And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

  • Exod 12:50-51
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    50 So the children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses and Aaron.

    51 And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

  • Exod 12:37
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    37 And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36 This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

  • Josh 5:6
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    6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Gen 50:3
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    3 And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

  • Exod 12:1
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    1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 2:23
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    23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

  • Num 32:13
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    13 Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

  • Num 33:1
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    4 And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:

  • Gen 47:27-28
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    27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

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  • Exod 19:1
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  • Acts 7:17
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    17 But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

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    8 When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

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    46 Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

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    3 Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;

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    33 And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.

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    4 Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

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    23 But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

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    13 And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with orders for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

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  • Gen 50:22
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    22 Now Joseph and all his father's family went on living in Egypt: and the years of Joseph's life were a hundred and ten.

  • Exod 12:35
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    35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:

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    38 Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.

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    28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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