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“Yet, God didn’t give Abraham anything in this land to call his own, not even a place to rest his feet. But God promised to give this land to him and to his descendants, even though Abraham didn’t have a child. God told Abraham that his descendants would be foreigners living in another country and that the people there would make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years. God also told him, ‘I will punish the people whom they will serve. After that, they will leave that country and worship me here.’

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He gave him no inheritance here,(A) not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,(B) even though at that time Abraham had no child. 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.(C) But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14