Acts 7:17

But as the time of the promise approached that God swore to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

In Context

16And they were carried into Shechem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

18until another king arose who had not known Joseph.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:13And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Exodus 1:20And God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

Acts 7:6And God spoke thus: His seed would be alien in a foreign land, and they would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.

2 Peter 3:8But beloved, this one thing you should not ignore, that one day with Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17

Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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