And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
After exactly four hundred and thirty years had passed, on that very same day, all of God's people left the land of Egypt.
This verse marks the precise fulfillment of God's timing - after 430 years of waiting, the entire nation of Israel finally departed from Egypt on the exact day God had planned.
📚 Historical Context
This refers to the Israelites' exodus from Egypt after centuries of slavery, culminating in the dramatic events of the ten plagues and Pharaoh's release of the Hebrew people. The 430 years likely encompasses the time from when Abraham's descendants first came to Egypt through Joseph until this moment of liberation. This departure fulfilled God's earlier promise to Abraham that his descendants would be strangers in a foreign land but would eventually be delivered.
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