Acts 7:6
But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.
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- Gen 15:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. 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 sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
- Exod 12:40-41 : 40 Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt.
- Gal 3:17 : 17 What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.
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- Acts 7:7-93 verses86%
7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ said God,‘and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.’
8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
9 The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,
- Gen 15:13-142 verses86%
13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
14 But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.
- Acts 7:17-193 verses78%
17 “But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,
18 until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.
19 This was the one who exploited our people and was cruel to our ancestors, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Exod 6:4-52 verses77%
4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners.
5 I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exod 12:40-412 verses76%
40 Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41 At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt.
- Acts 7:3-53 verses75%
3 and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’
4 Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.
5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
- Gen 26:3-42 verses74%
3 Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.
4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
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4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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6 But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.
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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
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15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
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10 Come, let’s deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country.”
- Gen 17:7-93 verses72%
7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
9 Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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13 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
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19 When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,
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37 Moreover, because he loved your ancestors, he chose their descendants who followed them and personally brought you out of Egypt with his great power
- Acts 7:11-122 verses71%
11 Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
12 So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.
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21 you must say to them,“We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.
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4 Then they said to Pharaoh,“We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
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4 He said to me,‘I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.’
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12 When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,
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3 but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
- Exod 6:8-103 verses71%
8 I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob– and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’”
9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and hard labor.
10 Then the LORD said to Moses,
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7 They answered him,“Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
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16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its limit.”
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4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. I will reach into Egypt and bring out my regiments, my people the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
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18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
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36 This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
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17 He sent a man ahead of them– Joseph was sold as a servant.
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14 In the future, when your son asks you‘What is this?’ you are to tell him,‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the land of slavery.
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27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
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8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
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23 The Call of the Deliverer During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.
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6 O children of Abraham, God’s servant, you descendants of Jacob, God’s chosen ones!