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But the primary evidence seems to favor a longer sojourn of 430 years. First
and foremost, the Hebrew text asserts that the Israelites spent 430 years in
Egypt (Exodus 12:40-41); and, as Leon Wood states, the Hebrew text must be
favored over later versions. Second, God told Abraham in Genesis 15:13 that
his descendants would be afflicted in a foreign land for 400 years. ...
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