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Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
Acts 13:18 · Webster 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 rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, Men, brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.
16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with [his] hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm he brought them out of it.
18 And about the time of forty years he suffered their manners in the wilderness.
19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
20 And after that he gave [to them] judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
21 And afterward they desired a king: and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
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