Acts 7:17

And when was come the time of that which Aloha promised with an oath unto Abraham, the people had multiplied and increased in Mitsreen

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 he was removed to Shechem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought with silver from the B'nai Chamur.

18until another king had arisen over Mitsreen, who knew not Jauseph,

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Cross References

Acts 7:6And Aloha spake with him, telling him that his seed should be a sojourner in a strange land, and that they would enslave and ill-treat them four hundred years.

2 Peter 3:8But this one (truth) be not ignorant of, my beloved, That one day with the 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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