7But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,' God said, 'and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.'


In Context

4 "So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.

5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even a foot of ground. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child.

6 God spoke to him in this way: 'Your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,' God said, 'and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.'

8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

9 "Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

Acts 7:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation which they shall serve will I judge, said the Lord; and after these things they shall go out, and shall serve me in this place.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that they shall come forth, and serve me in this place.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7'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.'

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:7And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.