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“He gave him no inheritance in this land, not even enough to set his foot on. But God promised to give it as a possession to him and to his descendants[a] after him,[b] even though Abraham still had no child. God revealed that his descendants[c] would live as strangers in a foreign country, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years. God added, ‘I will judge the nation that they will serve as slaves, and after that they will leave there and serve me in this place.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:5 Literally seed
  2. Acts 7:5 Genesis 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 48:4
  3. Acts 7:6 Literally seed
  4. Acts 7:7 Genesis 15:13-14