Acts 13:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And for about forty years like a fatherly nurse He cared for them in the wilderness and endured their behavior. [Deut. 1:31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

For about forty years, God put up with them in the wilderness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And throughout a time of forty years, he endured their behavior in the desert.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.

Acts 13:18 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:30

Many years you were patient with them and warned them by your spirit through your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore you handed them over to the peoples of the lands.

Exodus 16:2

The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice

Acts 7:36

He led them out, having performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.

Deuteronomy 9:7

Remember; do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the Lord from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place.