Holy Scripture
Genesis 15:13
A church father on this verse
“This word anticipates the sojourn of the people in Egypt, for they were to sojourn as it were in a land not their own. They would be reduced to slavery by the Pharaoh and mistreated in many ways by him and by the Egyptians. There is no discrepancy between what is said here and what is written in Exodus. There it is sa…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
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In context
11And birds came down upon the bodies, even upon the divided parts of them, and Abram sat down by them.
12And about sunset a trance fell upon Abram, and lo! a great gloomy terror falls upon him.
— Genesis 15:13 —
14And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much property.
15But thou shalt depart to thy fathers in peace, nourished in a good old age.