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Acts 13:18

American Standard Version

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

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Acts 13:18 in other translations

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

Acts 13:18 · World English Bible

Acts 13:18 in context

  1. 16And Paul stood up, and beckoning with the hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken:
  2. 17The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm led he them forth out of it.
  3. 18And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.
  4. 19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:
  5. 20and after these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.