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16 And in the [a]fourth generation they [your descendants] shall come back here [to Canaan] again, for the iniquity of the [b]Amorites is not yet full and complete.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:16 This prophecy was literally fulfilled. Moses, for example, who led the Israelites back to Canaan after their 400 years in Egypt, was “in the fourth generation” from Jacob—Levi, Kohath, Amram, Moses.
  2. Genesis 15:16 The most important and powerful group of that region. The name “Amorite” later became virtually synonymous with that of the inhabitants of Canaan generally.

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