Acts 7:17

And when the time arrived for that which God had promised to Abraham with an oath, the people had multiplied and become strong, in Egypt:

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 transported to Sychem, and was deposited in the sepulchre which Abraham bought with money of the sons of Emmor.

18until there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

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Cross References

Acts 7:6And God conversed with him, and said to him: Thy seed will be a sojourner in a foreign land; and they will reduce it to servitude, and will treat it ill, during four hundred years.

2 Peter 3:8And of this one thing, my beloved, be not forgetful, That one day, to 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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