¹³ Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that ^(A)your ^[a]descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, ^[b]where ^(B)they will be enslaved and oppressed for ^(C)four hundred years.

¹⁶ Then in ^(A)the fourth generation they will return here, for ^(B)the wrongdoing of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

⁶ But ^(A)God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be strangers in a land that was not theirs, and ^[a]they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years.

¹⁷ What I am saying is this: the Law, which came ^(A)430 years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.