Gen 15:13-16 | NASB1995 | STEP | God said to Abram , “ Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs , where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years .

Genesis 15:13-16

13 God said to Abram, “Know for certain that ^ayour ^{▼▼ Lit seed}descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, ^{▼▼ Lit and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them}where ^dthey will be enslaved and oppressed ^efour hundred years. 14 “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out ^fwith ^{▼▼ Lit great}many possessions. 15 “As for you, ^hyou shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 “Then in ⁱthe fourth generation they will return here, for ^jthe iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”