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Ac 7:17 Strong Concordance But [1161] when [2531] the time [5550] of the promise [1860] drew nigh [1448], which [3739] God [2316] had sworn [3660] to Abraham [11], the people [2992] grew [837] and [2532] multiplied [4129] in [1722] Egypt [125],
  King James But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
But when--rather, "as."

the time of the promise--that is, for its fulfilment.

the people grew and multiplied in Egypt--For more than two hundred years they amounted to no more than seventy-five souls; how prodigious, then, must have been their multiplication during the latter two centuries, when six hundred thousand men, fit for war, besides women and children, left Egypt!
 
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7 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were fruitful [06509], and increased abundantly [08317], and multiplied [07235], and waxed exceeding [03966] [03966] mighty [06105]; and the land [0776] was filled [04390] with them.
8 Now there arose up [06965] a new [02319] king [04428] over Egypt [04714], which knew [03045] not Joseph [03130].
9 And he said [0559] unto his people [05971], Behold, the people [05971] of the children [01121] of Israel [03478] are more [07227] and mightier [06099] than we:
7 And the children [01121] of Israel [03478] were fruitful [06509], and increased abundantly [08317], and multiplied [07235], and waxed exceeding [03966] [03966] mighty [06105]; and the land [0776] was filled [04390] with them.