15 how our fathers ^fwent down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt ^ga long time. And the Egyptians ^hdealt harshly with us and our fathers.

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

17 This is what I mean: ^athe law, which came ^b430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.