Was it four hundred years? Or 430 years?

The Hebrew people were enslaved in Egypt for 430 years. But Deacon Steven, apparently speaking in round numbers, said it was 400 years.

Genesis 15:13. 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.

Exodus 12:40. Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Acts 7:6. God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Galatians 3:17. Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

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