Here is what God said to him.‘ For 400 years your family after you will be strangers in a country not their own. They will be slaves and will be treated badly.

神说：‘他的后裔必寄居外邦，那里的人要叫他们作奴仆，苦待他们四百年。’

上帝这样说：‘他的后裔必寄居外邦，那里的人要使他们作奴隶，苦待他们四百年。’

神这样说：‘他的后裔必寄居外邦，那里的人要使他们作奴隶，苦待他们四百年。’

上帝又说，‘你的子孙必流落异乡，受奴役、被虐待四百年。

神就这样说：‘你的后裔必在外地寄居，人要奴役、虐待他们四百年。’

神这样说：‘他的后裔要在他人之地做寄居的，那里的人要奴役、虐待他们四百年。

神說：『他的後裔必寄居外邦，那裏的人要叫他們作奴僕，苦待他們四百年。』

上帝這樣說：『他的後裔必寄居外邦，那裏的人要使他們作奴隸，苦待他們四百年。』

神這樣說：『他的後裔必寄居外邦，那裏的人要使他們作奴隸，苦待他們四百年。』

上帝又說，『你的子孫必流落異鄉，受奴役、被虐待四百年。

神就這樣說：‘你的後裔必在外地寄居，人要奴役、虐待他們四百年。’

上帝這樣說：他的後裔將來必在外人之地做僑民，那裏的人必驅使他們做奴隸，給苦害了四百年。

神這樣說：『他的後裔要在他人之地做寄居的，那裡的人要奴役、虐待他們四百年。

且謂其裔將旅於異地、人將奴之虐待之、歷四百年、上帝又曰、

上帝曰、爾之苗裔、將旅於異地、彼以之為奴、困苦歷四百年、

天主且云、其苗裔將旅於異國、其國之人必勒之為奴、困苦之歷四百年、

天主且言其後裔將寄居域、為人所奴、而備嘗虐待者達四百載之久。

God spoke to him in this way:‘ For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.

And God spoke to this effect— that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.

God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.

God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them for four hundred years.

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be strangers in a land that was not theirs, and they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years.

But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years.

And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

God spoke in this way: His descendants would be strangers in a foreign country, and they would enslave and oppress them 400 years.

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat[ them] evil four hundred years.

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

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.

Then the Lord said to him,“ You can be sure of what I am about to tell you. For 400 years, your family who comes after you will be strangers in another country. They will become slaves there and will be treated badly.

Your children’s grandchildren will come back here. That’s because the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached the point where I must punish them.”

Here is what I mean. The law came 430 years after the promise. But the law does not get rid of God’s covenant and promise. The covenant had already been made by God. So the law does not do away with the promise.

The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years.Then all the Lord’ s people marched out of Egypt like an army. That happened at the end of the 430 years, to the exact day.