13 Then the Lord said to Abram,(A) “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be foreigners(B) in a land that does not belong to them; they will be enslaved and oppressed[a] 400 years.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:13 Lit will serve them and they will oppress them

40 The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt[a] was 430 years.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:40 LXX, Sam add and in Canaan

God spoke in this way:

His descendants would be strangers
in a foreign country,
and they would enslave
and oppress them 400 years.

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