Acts 7:17

But when the time of the promise which God made with an oath to Abraham was at hand, the people increased and became numerous in Egypt,

Acts 7:6

And God said thus; that his posterity should be a stranger in a foreign land, and they shall enslave it and treat it injuriously four hundred years;

Acts 13:17

The God of this people chose our fathers, and raised up the people in the exile in the land of Egypt, and brought them out of it with a high arm.

2 Peter 3:8-9

But let not this one thing escape you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

The people

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The people

Acts 13:17
The God of this people chose our fathers, and raised up the people in the exile in the land of Egypt, and brought them out of it with a high arm.