Acts 7:6
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7:6But God spoke as follows: ‘Your13 descendants will be foreigners14 in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.15
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- 13 Grk “that his”; the discourse switches from indirect to direct with the following verbs. For consistency the entire quotation is treated as second person direct discourse in the translation.
- 14 Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.
- 15 A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
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.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.
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NLTNew Living Translation
God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years,
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KJV 1900King James Version
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.
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