Acts 7:7

And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage ,.... At the end of the four hundred years, and which was the Egyptian nation:

I will judge, said God ; that is, condemn and punish them, as he did, by inflicting the ten plagues upon them:

and after that they shall come forth ; out of the land of Egypt, and their hard bondage there; and which was brought about by the judgments executed upon the Egyptians:

and serve me in this place ; in the land of Canaan; though these words are not to be found in Genesis 15:13 what comes nearest them is in Exodus 3:12 . "Ye shall serve God upon this mountain"; meaning Mount Horeb, where Moses then was, and from whence the law was afterwards given.