Bible verse
Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
Exodus 12:40 · BSB
The verses around it, from Exodus 12.
36 And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
39 Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
40 Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
42 Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.
43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
44 But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
KJV
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.
ASV
Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
ERV
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, which they sojourned in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
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