Acts 13:18

Contemporary English Version 1995

and for about 40 years he took care of them in the desert.

Cross References

Acts 7:36

In Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the desert, Moses rescued the people by working miracles and wonders for 40 years.

Deuteronomy 9:7

Don't ever forget how you kept rebelling and making the Lord angry the whole time you were in the desert. You rebelled from the day you left Egypt until the day you arrived here.

Deuteronomy 1:31

And you know that the Lord has taken care of us the whole time we've been in the desert, just as you might carry one of your children.”

Numbers 14:22

I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, before they came to the border of Canaan that was a settled land.

Exodus 16:2

There in the desert they started complaining to Moses and Aaron,

Nehemiah 9:30

For years, you were patient, and your Spirit warned them with messages spoken by your prophets. Still they refused to listen, and you handed them over to their enemies.