Exodus 12:40
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40 The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt[a] was four hundred and thirty years.(A)
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Numbers 20:15
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15 how our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors harshly.
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Judith 5:9-10
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9 Their God told them to leave the place where they were living and go to the land of Canaan. Here they settled, and grew very rich in gold, silver, and a great abundance of livestock.(A) 10 Later, when famine had gripped the land of Canaan, they went down into Egypt. They stayed there as long as they found sustenance and there they grew into such a great multitude that the number of their people could not be counted.(B)
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Isaiah 52:4
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4 For thus says the Lord God:
To Egypt long ago my people went down,
to sojourn there;
Assyria, too, oppressed them for nought.
Acts 13:20
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20 at the end of about four hundred and fifty years.[a] After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.(A)
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- 13:20 At the end of about four hundred and fifty years: the manuscript tradition makes it uncertain whether the mention of four hundred and fifty years refers to the sojourn in Egypt before the Exodus, the wilderness period and the time of the conquest (see Ex 12:40–41), as the translation here suggests, or to the time between the conquest and the time of Samuel, the period of the judges, if the text is read, “After these things, for about four hundred and fifty years, he provided judges.”
Galatians 3:17
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17 This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward,[a] does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.(A)
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