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He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
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The 400-Year Prophecy
Commentators clarify that the 'four hundred years' of sojourning began not with the entry into Egypt, but with the birth of Isaac, the promised seed. This long period as 'strangers in a land that is not theirs' included time in both Canaan and Egypt. The severe affliction and slavery happened within this larger timeframe, showing God's detailed foreknowledge of His people's journey.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Four hundred years. —The exact duration of the sojourn in Egypt was 430 years (Exodus 12:40–41), and with this agrees …
Baptist
It was to be a long while before the nation was to enter upon its inheritance. Here is a promise that was to take four hundred years to ripen! Some…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he said to Abram While he was in a deep sleep; this he said to him in a vision of prophecy:
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A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk i…
