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This is what God told Abraham. He told him that his children would travel and live in another land. They would be slaves to the people there. They would have a hard time for four hundred years.

And God said, "I will judge the people who make them slaves. After that, they will come out of that land and serve me here."

God made the agreement of circumcision with Abraham. Abraham had a son Isaac. He made the mark of circumcision on the child's body and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac had a son Jacob, and Jacob had twelve sons who were our fathers.

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God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.(A) But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[a](B) Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.(C) And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.(D) Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,(E) and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:7 Gen. 15:13,14