Acts 7:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, [a]no not the breadth of a foot: yet he [b]promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6 But God spake thus, that his (A)seed should be a sojourner in a strange land: and that they should keep it in bondage, and entreat it evil [c]four hundred years.
7 But the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, will I judge, saith God: and after that, they shall come forth and serve me in this place.
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- Acts 7:5 Not so much ground as to set his foot upon.
- Acts 7:5 The promise of the possession was certain and belonged to Abraham, though his posterity enjoyed it a great while after his death: and this is the figure Synecdoche.
- Acts 7:6 There are reckoned four hundred years, from the beginning of Abraham’s progeny, which was at the birth of Isaac: and four hundred and thirty years which are spoken of by Paul, Gal. 3:17, from the time that Abraham and his father departed together out of Ur of the Chaldeans.
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