Act 7:6-7 | LEB | STEP | But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years,

Acts 7:6-7

6 But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them ^{▼▼*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation} four hundred years, 7 and the nation ⌞that⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “to which”} they will serve as slaves, I will judge,’ God said, ‘and after these things they will come out ^{▼▼Verses 6–7 are a quotation from Gen 15:13–14} and will worship me in this place.’ ^{▼▼The final phrase is an allusion to Exod 3:12}