Acts 7:6

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God spoke to Abraham in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

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  • Gen 15:13 : 13 The LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be foreigners in a land not their own, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years."
  • Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.
  • Exod 12:40-41 : 40 Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. 41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the very day, all the LORD's hosts came out of the land of Egypt.
  • Gal 3:17 : 17 This is what I mean: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus cancel the promise.

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  • Acts 7:7-9
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    7But I will judge the nation that they serve as slaves,' said God, 'and afterward, they will come out and worship me in this place.'

    8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. Under this covenant, Abraham became the father of Isaac, and on the eighth day, he circumcised him. Isaac then became the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of the twelve patriarchs.

    9Because they were jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him.

  • Gen 15:13-14
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    13The LORD said to him, "Know for certain that your descendants will be foreigners in a land not their own, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years."

    14"But I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will come out with great wealth."

  • Acts 7:17-19
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    17As the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise He had made to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt.

    18Then another king arose in Egypt, one who did not know Joseph.

    19This king dealt deceitfully with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to abandon their infants, so they would not survive.

  • Exod 6:4-5
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    4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they lived as strangers.

    5Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.

  • Exod 12:40-41
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    40Now the time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

    41At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the very day, all the LORD's hosts came out of the land of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:3-5
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    3'He said to him, 'Leave your country and your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.'

    4So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him to this land where you are now living.

    5But God gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

  • Gen 26:3-4
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    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

    4I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and give them all these lands, and through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

  • Deut 26:6
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    6But the Egyptians mistreated us, oppressed us, and subjected us to harsh labor.

  • Exod 32:13
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    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself: 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and they shall inherit it forever.'

  • Num 20:15
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    15Our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time. But the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors.

  • Exod 1:10
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    10Come, let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise, they will multiply further, and in the event of war, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country."

  • Gen 17:7-9
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    7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

    8And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

    9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

  • Exod 6:13
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    13The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and commanded them to speak to the Israelites and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Chr 16:19
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    19When you were few in number, a small group of strangers in the land,

  • Deut 4:37
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    37Because He loved your ancestors, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt with His great power and presence.

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

    12When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time.

  • Deut 6:21
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    21You shall say to your son: 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.'

  • Gen 47:4
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    4They also said to Pharaoh, 'We have come to sojourn in this land because there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine in the land of Canaan is severe. Please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.'

  • Gen 48:4
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    4He said to me, 'I am about to make you fruitful and multiply you. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.'

  • Ps 105:12
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    12When they were few in number, very few, and strangers in the land.

  • Josh 24:3
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    3But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

  • Exod 6:8-10
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    8'And I will bring you to the land that I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.'

    9Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh slavery.

    10Then the LORD said to Moses,

  • Gen 44:7
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    7But they replied to him, "Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

  • Gen 15:16
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    16In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.

  • Exod 7:4
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    4Pharaoh will not listen to you, so I will stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring my armies—my people, the Israelites—out of the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.

  • Acts 13:18
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    18For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Ps 105:17
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    17He sent a man ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

  • Exod 13:14
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    14In the future, when your son asks you, 'What does this mean?' say to him, 'With a mighty hand, the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27Now Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They gained property there, were fruitful, and greatly multiplied in number.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When Jacob went into Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

  • Exod 2:23
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    23During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery rose up to God.

  • Ps 105:6
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    6Descendants of Abraham, His servant, children of Jacob, His chosen ones.