13 Then he said to Abram, (A)Know for a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, (B)[a]four hundred years, and shall serve them: and they entreat them evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:13 Counting from the birth of Isaac to their departure out of Egypt: Which declareth that God will suffer his to be afflicted in this world.

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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But God spake thus, that his (A)seed should be a sojourner in a strange land: and that they should keep it in bondage, and entreat it evil [a]four hundred years.

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  1. Acts 7:6 There are reckoned four hundred years, from the beginning of Abraham’s progeny, which was at the birth of Isaac: and four hundred and thirty years which are spoken of by Paul, Gal. 3:17, from the time that Abraham and his father departed together out of Ur of the Chaldeans.

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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17 [a]And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed afore of God [b]in respect of Christ, the [c]Law which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:17 The eighth argument taken of comparison, thus: If a man’s covenant (being authentical) be firm and strong, much more God’s covenant. Therefore the Law was not given to abrogate the promise made to Abraham, which had respect to Christ, that is to say, the end whereof did hang of Christ.
  2. Galatians 3:17 Which tendeth to Christ.
  3. Galatians 3:17 An enlarging of that argument, thus: Moreover and besides that the promise is of itself firm and strong, it was also confirmed with the prescription of long time, to wit, of 430 years, so that it could in no wise be broken.

17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years(A) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.

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