“And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.”
'God spoke about his descendants this way: 'For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated' - Stephen quotes Genesis 15:13, part of the covenant vision. The 'four hundred years' represents an extended period of displacement, prefiguring Israel's Egyptian bondage. The promise includes suffering; covenant history is not triumphalist but marked by affliction and divine rescue.
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