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Acts 7:6

Context
NETBible

But God spoke as follows: ‘Your 1  descendants will be foreigners 2  in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years. 3 

XREF

Ge 15:13,16; Ex 12:40,41; Ga 3:17

NET © Notes

tn Grk “that his”; the discourse switches from indirect to direct with the following verbs. For consistency the entire quotation is treated as second person direct discourse in the translation.

tn Or “will be strangers,” that is, one who lives as a noncitizen of a foreign country.

sn A quotation from Gen 15:13. Exod 12:40 specifies the sojourn as 430 years.



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