Ante-Nicene Fathers — Vol. 02 — CCEL UTF-8 text — Chapter X.--Of Humanity to Strangers.
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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 2
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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." …
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