He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 15:13 in context
Genesis 15:10–16
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He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide the birds.
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The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
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When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
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He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
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I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
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but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
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In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
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