13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

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13 Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years(A) your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved(B) and mistreated there.

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14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

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14 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out(A) with great possessions.(B)

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And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

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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)

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And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

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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](A)

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Footnotes

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