God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Textus Receptus (TR) - Acts 7:6 >Ἐλάλησε δὲ οὕτως ὁ Θεός, ὅτι ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ πάροικον ἐν γῇ ἀλλοτρίᾳ, καὶ δουλώσουσιν αὐτὸ καὶ κακώσουσιν, ἔτη τετρακόσια.