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Acts 13:18
And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.
Acts 13:18 · Geneva Bible
Acts 13:18 in other translations
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
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In context
15 And after the lecture of the Law and Prophets, the rulers of ye Synagogue sent vnto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye haue any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
16 Then Paul stoode vp and beckened with the hand, and sayde, Men of Israel, and yee that feare God, hearken.
17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt in the land of Egypt, and with an high arme brought them out thereof.
18 And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.
19 And he destroied seuen nations in the land of Chanaan, and deuided their lad to them by lot.
20 Then afterward he gaue vnto them Iudges about foure hundreth and fiftie yeeres, vnto the time of Samuel the Prophet.
21 So after that, they desired a King, and God gaue vnto them Saul, the sonne of Cis, a man of ye tribe of Beniamin, by the space of fourty yeres.
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