But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them[a] four hundred years, and the nation that[b] they will serve as slaves, I will judge,’ God said, ‘and after these things they will come out[c] and will worship me in this place.’[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:6 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Acts 7:7 Literally “to which”
  3. Acts 7:7 Verses 6–7 are a quotation from Gen 15:13–14
  4. Acts 7:7 The final phrase is an allusion to Exod 3:12

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.(A) 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](B)

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Footnotes

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