Genesis 15:13

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He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

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Maps for this passage

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

The Journeys of Abraham and the PatriarchsThe journeys of Abraham and the patriarchs from Ur through Canaan and into Egypt.

Historical maps are public-domain atlas plates, digitized by Wikimedia Commons.

Ur of the Chaldeans lay in southern Mesopotamia near the Euphrates, while Damascus was in Syria and Egypt along the Nile; these places mark Abram’s journey from Mesopotamia toward Canaan

Places in this passage

Genesis 15:13 mentions Chaldea, Damascus, Egypt, Euphrates and Ur.

Photo of Chaldea — Chaldea · M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato