Genesis 15:13: Here I won't bother with the textual details as there is no difficulty. But we should remember that Abraham was already a stranger in a country not his own, so this 400 year period can easily be understood as starting from that time. True, they were not at this time enslaved or mistreated, but in the Hebrew the timescale refers to all three preceding clauses without implying that all three will be simultaneously true for all of the time.
So I would consider the issue entirely open, whether the 430 (or 400) years is from Abraham to Moses or from the move to Egypt until Moses. The chronology is not tied down either way.
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