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17But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

Acts 7:17

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 17-29)

Stephen here goes on to relate, I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was when the time of the promise drew nigh —the time when they were to be formed into a people. During the first two hundred and fifteen years after the promise made to Abraham, the children of the covena...

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