Thematic Bible: 430 years


Thematic Bible



But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise. Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Law Given To Israelthe Law of moses

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years. Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature Of100 Years And MoreSojourningSure KnowledgeThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelDescendants ofslaveryoppression

Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

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