Acts 13:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And for about forty years he bore 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 thou didst bear with them, and didst warn them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou didst give them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Exodus 16:2

And the whole congregation of the people of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,

Exodus 16:35

And the people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land; they ate the manna, till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

Acts 7:36

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

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 9:7

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