⁶ God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.^(A)

⁴⁰ Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt^[a] was 430 years.^{(A) 41} At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions^(B) left Egypt.^(C)

¹⁷ What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years^(A) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.