The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for 400 years.” ( Genesis 15:13) So we must let Scripture shed light on itself. But because we are plagued by minds that are broken due to living in a sin-cursed world, we can never perfectly understand everything. We must remember that Scripture is never in error. However, this sort of thinking reveals our beliefs about Scripture: is it really inerrant? So what’s the problem-the Bible or the way we approach it? Is there a discrepancy? A copyist error? Were the ancients just not very good at math? These are usually the questions that pop into our minds when we come across a passage of Scripture that we don’t understand or maybe disagree with. Some may say, “But according to Scripture the Israelites were slaves in Egypt for 400 years.
So the descendants of Jacob were there for 215 years, before the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Jacob and his family moved to Egypt, during the famine, 215 years after God’s promise to Abraham. In books and articles it is often claimed that the Israelites were only in Egypt for 215 years.
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