Genesis 15:13-16

The Voice

Eternal One (to Abram): ¹³ I will tell you this on which you can stake your life: Your descendants will first be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be made slaves there and will be oppressed for 400 years. ¹⁴ But then I will judge the nation that enslaves them.^[a] When that time comes, your descendants will emerge from that land with many possessions. ¹⁵ As for you, you will rest with your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. ¹⁶ Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here to possess the land, because the sin of the Amorite people has not yet reached its full measure.