Exodus 12:40
New International Version
Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.

New Living Translation
The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

English Standard Version
The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Berean Standard Bible
Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

King James Bible
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

New King James Version
Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

New American Standard Bible
Now the time that the sons of Israel had lived in Egypt was 430 years.

NASB 1995
Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

NASB 1977
Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Amplified Bible
Now the period of time the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Christian Standard Bible
The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

American Standard Version
Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And their dwelling where the children of Israel had dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sojourning of the children of Israel, while they sojourned in the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan, was four hundred and thirty years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

English Revised Version
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, which they sojourned in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Israelites had been living in Egypt for 430 years.

Good News Translation
The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

International Standard Version
Now the time that the Israelis lived in Egypt was 430 years.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Literal Standard Version
And the dwelling of the sons of Israel [in] which they have dwelt in Egypt [is] four hundred and thirty years;

Majority Standard Bible
Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

New American Bible
The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

NET Bible
Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

New Revised Standard Version
The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

New Heart English Bible
Now the time of the dwelling of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

World English Bible
Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Young's Literal Translation
And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they have dwelt in Egypt is four hundred and thirty years;

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Context
The Exodus Begins
39Since 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. 40Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years. 41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.…

Cross References
Acts 7:6
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Galatians 3:17
What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Genesis 15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

Exodus 3:10
Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt."


Treasury of Scripture

Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelled in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Galatians 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Acts 13:17
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

for hundred

Genesis 12:1-3
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: …

Genesis 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

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Exodus 12
1. The beginning of the year is changed
3. The Passover is instituted
11. The import of the rite of the Passover
15. Unleavened bread
29. The firstborn are slain
31. The Israelites are driven out of the land
37. They come to Succoth
41. The time of their sojourning
43. The ordinance of the Passover














(40) The sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt.--Heb., which they sojourned in Egypt

Was four hundred and thirty years.--Comp. the prophecy:--"Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs [Egypt, not Canaan], and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge" (Genesis 15:13-14). The genealogy of Joshua (1Chronicles 7:22-27), which places him in the eleventh generation from Jacob, accords well with this term of years. The other genealogies are more or less abbreviated.

Verses 40-42. - The narrative of the departure from Egypt is followed, not unnaturally, by a notification of the length of the sojourn, which is declared to have been a space of four hundred and thirty years. In the "Introduction" to the Book, we have examined the question, which here arises,

1. As to the soundness; and

2. As to the true meaning, of the Hebrew text, and have arrived at the conclusion that it is sound, and that it means what it says, viz., that 430 years elapsed between the arrival of Jacob in Egypt, with his sons, and sons' sons, and their families, as related in Genesis 46:1-27, and the commencement of the exodus. The time is required by the genealogy of Joshua (1 Chronicles 7:22-27). It is in remarkable accordance with the traditions that Joseph was the minister of Apspi, and that the Jews went out under Menephthah. If not absolutely required for the multiplication of the race from "seventy souls" to above two millions, it is at any rate more in accord with that fact than the alternative number, 215. It is twice repeated, so that "the mistake of a copyist" is almost impossible. Verse 40. - The sojourning of the children of Israel, which dwelt in Egypt. Rather, "Which they sojourned in Egypt." (Compare the Septuagint - ἡ κατοίκησις η{ν κατῴκησαν.) Four hundred and thirty years. Literally "thirty years and four hundred years."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Now the duration
וּמוֹשַׁב֙ (ū·mō·wō·šaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4186: A seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling, dwellers

of the Israelites’
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

stay
יָשְׁב֖וּ (yā·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in Egypt
בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם (bə·miṣ·rā·yim)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

was 430
שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים (šə·lō·šîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 7970: Thirty, thirtieth

years.
שָׁנָ֔ה (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year


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