Exodus 12:40
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Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageEgypt was the land where Israel lived under oppression before the exodus; Exodus 12:40 emphasizes the long duration of their sojourn there. Rameses, a royal district or storage-city region in northeastern Egypt, was the point from which the Israelites began their departure (12:37).
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Exodus 12:40 mentions Egypt and Rameses.
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