^13-15 (A) Then the Lord said:

Abram, you will live to an old age and die in peace.

But I solemnly promise that your descendants will live as foreigners in a land that doesn't belong to them. They will be forced into slavery and abused for 400 years. But I will terribly punish the nation that enslaves them, and they will leave with many possessions.

^17 (A) What I am saying is that the Law cannot change or cancel God's promise made 430 years before the Law was given.