Acts 7:17

As the time approached regarding the promise that God had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt increased.

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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

16Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought with silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

18A new king came to the throne in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:13The Lord explained to Abram, “You can be absolutely sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be slaves and mistreated for 400 years.

Exodus 1:20God treated the midwives well, and the people increased in number so there were even more of them.

Acts 7:6God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign country, and that they would be enslaved there, and would be mistreated for four hundred years.

2 Peter 3:8However, my friends, don't forget this one thing: that for the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like a 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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