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Genesis 15:14-16
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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.

16 Four generations later,[a] your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here[b] be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.16 Four generations later: This may refer to the “400 years” of verses 13-15.
  2. 15.16 people who live here: The Hebrew text has “Amorites,” a name sometimes used of the people who lived in Palestine before the Israelites.
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Genesis 15:14-16
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14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out(A) with great possessions.(B) 15 You, however, will go to your ancestors(C) in peace and be buried at a good old age.(D) 16 In the fourth generation(E) your descendants will come back here,(F) for the sin of the Amorites(G) has not yet reached its full measure.”

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