But God spake thus, that his (A)seed should be a sojourner in a strange land: and that they should keep it in bondage, and entreat it evil [a]four hundred years.

But the nation to whom they shall be in bondage, will I judge, saith God: and after that, they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

(B)He gave him also the covenant of circumcision: and to Abraham begat(C)Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begat (D)Jacob, and Jacob the twelve (E)Patriarchs.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:6 There are reckoned four hundred years, from the beginning of Abraham’s progeny, which was at the birth of Isaac: and four hundred and thirty years which are spoken of by Paul, Gal. 3:17, from the time that Abraham and his father departed together out of Ur of the Chaldeans.

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