ISRAEL, (Usually, in lists, the names of Levi and Joseph, two sons of
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.
14. I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
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.
7. 'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God, 'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'Genesis 15:13-14