God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own,
Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”