Exodus 12:40

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Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 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.
  • Acts 7:6 : 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.
  • Acts 13:17 : 17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay as foreigners in the country of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
  • Gal 3:16-17 : 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ. 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.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
  • Gen 12:1-3 : 1 The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”

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  • Exod 12:41-42
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    41At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt.

    42It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.

  • Exod 12:39
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    39They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast– because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.

  • Acts 7:6
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    6But 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.

  • Acts 13:18
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    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

  • Gen 15:13
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    13Then 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.

  • Exod 16:35
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    35Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • Ezek 29:11-13
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    11No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

    12I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

    13“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    12But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

    13and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

  • Exod 12:50-51
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    50So all the Israelites did exactly as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

    51And on this very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

  • Exod 12:37
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    37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.

  • Acts 7:36
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    36This 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.

  • Josh 5:6
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    6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

  • Gen 50:3
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    3They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

  • Exod 12:1
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    1The Institution of the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

  • Exod 2:23
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    23The 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.

  • Num 32:13
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    13So the LORD’s anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the LORD was finished.

  • Num 33:1
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    1Wanderings from Egypt to Sinai These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

  • Exod 11:4
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    4Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

  • Gen 47:27-28
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    27Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

    28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.

  • Exod 19:1
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    1Israel at Sinai In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on the very day, they came to the desert of Sinai.

  • Acts 7:17
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    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,

  • 1 Sam 12:8
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    8When 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.

  • Gen 41:46
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    46Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

  • Deut 1:3
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    3However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the LORD had instructed him to do.

  • Exod 12:33
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    33The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying,“We are all dead!”

  • Deut 8:4
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    4Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

  • Judg 13:1
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    1Samson’s Birth The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • Acts 7:23
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    23But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites.

  • Exod 6:13
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    13The 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.

  • Num 14:34
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    34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days– one day for a year– you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

  • Gen 50:22
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    22Joseph lived in Egypt, along with his father’s family. Joseph lived 110 years.

  • Exod 12:35
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    35Now the Israelites had done as Moses told them– they had requested from the Egyptians silver and gold items and clothing.

  • Ps 105:38
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    38Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Exod 12:28
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    28and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

  • Exod 14:3
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    3Pharaoh will think regarding the Israelites,‘They are wandering around confused in the land– the desert has closed in on them.’

  • 1 Kgs 11:42
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    42Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.