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Acts 13:18

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For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

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Acts 13:18 in other translations

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

Acts 13:18 · American Standard Version

Acts 13:18 in context

  1. 16Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
  2. 17The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.
  3. 18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
  4. 19When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance for about four hundred fifty years.
  5. 20After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.