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17 This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward,[a] does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.(A)

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  1. 3:17 Four hundred and thirty years afterward: follows Ex 12:40 in the Greek (Septuagint) version, in contrast to Gn 15:13 and Acts 7:6, for chronology.

17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years(A) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.

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