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“Therefore, he departed from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And after his father died, God led him to the land where you now dwell. He did not give him any of this land as a heritage, not even as little as a foot, but he promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

“This is what God said: ‘His descendants will reside in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

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