⁶ And God spoke in these terms, that his descendants would be resident aliens in a country belonging to others, who would enslave them and mistreat them during four hundred years.^(A)

¹³ Then the Lord^[a] said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,^(A)

¹⁷ My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.^(A)

⁴⁰ The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.^{(A) 41} At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the companies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.^(B)

¹⁶ And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”^(A)