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Acts 13:18
And, for the time of about forty years, bare with their manners in the desert;
Acts 13:18 · Rotherham Emphasised 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 reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue-rulers sent unto them, saying—Brethren! if there is in you a word of exhortation unto the people, say on.
16 And Paul, standing up, and making a sign with his hand, said—Ye men of Israel! and such as revere God! hearken:—
17 The God of this people Israel, chose our fathers, and, the people, he exalted, by their sojourn in the land of Egypt,—and, with a high arm, brought he them out of it;
18 And, for the time of about forty years, bare with their manners in the desert;
19 And, overthrowing seven nations in the land of Canaan, gave them their land as an inheritance—about four hundred and fifty years.
20 And, after these things, he gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And, from that time, they asked for themselves a king, and God gave them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years;
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