⁶ God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

¹⁷ This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.

⁴⁰ The people of Israel had lived in Egypt^[a] for 430 years. ⁴¹ In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the Lord’s forces left the land.

¹⁶ After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”