Acts 13:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And for about the time of forty years suffered he their manners 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

Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Exodus 16:2

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness:

Exodus 16:35

And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

Numbers 14:22

because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Acts 7:36

This man led them forth, having wrought wonders and signs in Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

Deuteronomy 9:7

Remember, forget thou not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou wentest forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.