Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Bible References

Sojourning

Acts 13:17
The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and raised up the people during the sojourn in the land of Egypt. And with a lofty arm he brought them out of it.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

Four hundred

Genesis 12:1
Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.
Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Acts 7:6
And God spoke thus: His seed would be alien in a foreign land, and they would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He does not say, And to the seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, who is Christ.