OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 15:16

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In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

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Verse 16. Fourth, and so forth after the 400 years are finished; during which period of time, God was pleased to bear with those wicked nations; whose iniquity chiefly consisted in idolatry, oppression of the poor and strangers, forbidden marriages of kindred, and abominable lusts. Levit. 18. Deuteronomy 6 and 12. Menochius.

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