13 Then the Lord said to Abram,(A) “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens(B) for four hundred years(C) in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.[a]

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  1. 15:13 Lit will serve them and they will oppress them

13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years(A) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved(B) and mistreated there.

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13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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40 The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt[a] was 430 years.(A)

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  1. 12:40 LXX, Sam add and in Canaan

40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt[a] was 430 years.(A)

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  1. Exodus 12:40 Masoretic Text; Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint Egypt and Canaan

40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

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God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.

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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)

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And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

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