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.’

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.

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.

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.

⁸ By faith ^(A)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place ^(B)that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹ By faith he went to live in ^(C)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(D)living in tents ^(E)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(F)the city that has ^(G)foundations, ^(H)whose designer and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith ^(I)Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered ^(J)him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and ^(K)him as good as dead, were born descendants ^(L)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(M)not having received the things promised, but ^(N)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(O)having acknowledged that they were ^(P)strangers and exiles on the earth.