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But God did not give Abraham any of this land, not even a foot of it. But God promised that in the future he would give Abraham this land for himself and for his children. This was before Abraham had any children.

“This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants will live in another country. They will be strangers. The people there will make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that made them slaves.’[a] And God also said, ‘After those things happen, your people will come out of that country. Then they will worship me here in this place.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:7 Quote from Gen. 15:13-14.
  2. Acts 7:7 Quote from Gen. 15:14; Ex. 3:12.

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