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Acts 7:6
And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them evil four hundred years.
Acts 7:6 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Acts 7:6 in other translations
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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In context
3 And said to him: Go forth out of thy country and from thy kindred: and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
4 Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.
5 And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
6 And God said to him: That his seed should sojourn in a strange country, and that they should bring them under bondage and treat them evil four hundred years.
7 And the nation which they shall serve will I judge (said the Lord): and after these things they shall go out and shall serve me in this place.
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,
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