But God spoke in this way: (A)that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into (B)bondage and oppress them four hundred years.

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13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly (A)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and (B)they will afflict them four hundred years.

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17 And this I say, that the law, (A)which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God [a]in Christ, (B)that it should make the promise of no effect.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 3:17 NU omits in Christ

40 Now the [a]sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in [b]Egypt was (A)four hundred and thirty years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that (B)all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:40 Length of the stay
  2. Exodus 12:40 Sam., LXX Egypt and Canaan

16 But (A)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity (B)of the Amorites (C)is not yet complete.”

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