Since therefore they were strangers in the land of Egypt, being by birth Hebrews from the land of Chaldæa, -- for at that time, there being a famine, they were obliged to migrate to Egypt for the sake of buying food there, where also for a time they sojourned; and these things befell them in accordance with a prediction of God, -- having sojourned, then, in Egypt for 430 years, when Moses was about to lead them out into the desert, God taught them by the law, saying, "Ye shall not afflict a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger: for yourselves were strangers in the land of Egypt." [650]

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Footnotes:

[650] Exodus 22:21.