¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain ^(A)that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and ^(B)they will be afflicted for ^(C)four hundred years.

⁶ And God spoke to this effect—that ^(A)his offspring would ^(B)be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them ^(C)four hundred years. ⁷ ‘But ^(D)I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out ^(E)and worship me in this place.’

¹¹ Therefore they set taskmasters over them ^(A)to afflict them with heavy ^(B)burdens. They built for Pharaoh ^(C)store cities, Pithom and ^(D)Raamses.

¹⁷ “But ^(A)as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, ^(B)the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

⁴⁰ The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. ⁴¹ At the end of ^(A)430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ This is what I mean: the law, which came ^(A)430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as ^(B)to make the promise void.

^34 (A)You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and ^(B)you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Israel Increases Greatly in Egypt

1 ^(A)These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,