¹³ Then the Lord said to Abram,^(A) ‘Know this for certain: your offspring will be resident foreigners^(B) for four hundred years^(C) in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.^[a]

⁴⁰ The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt^[a] was 430 years.^(A)

⁶ 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.