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In Pisidian Antioch

Acts 13:18

In 9 translations

BSB
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.
KJV
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
WEB
For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
ASV
And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.
LSV
and about a period of forty years He endured their conduct in the wilderness,
YLT
and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,
DBY
and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
DRC
And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.
GNV
And about the time of fourtie yeeres, suffered he their maners in the wildernesse.

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  • Spelling of τεσσερακονταετῆ: Textus Receptus: τεσσαρακονταετῆ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καί, ὡς τεσσερακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ,
RP2018
Καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ὡς τεσσαρακονταετῆ χρόνον ἐτροποφόρησεν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.
SCR1894
και ως τεσσαρακονταετη χρονον ετροποφορησεν αυτους εν τη ερημω

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◆ First Missionary Journey◆ Mission to Antioch in Pisidia

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  • Acts 7:36He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
  • Deuteronomy 9:7Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  • Hebrews 3:7–10Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty…
  • Numbers 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
  • Acts 7:39–43But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt. They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt,…
  • Psalms 78:17–42But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved. They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the…
  • Psalms 95:8–11do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I…
  • Deuteronomy 1:31and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
  • Psalms 106:13–29Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel. They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert. So He granted their request, but sent a wasting disease upon them. In the camp…
  • Nehemiah 9:16–21But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed…
  • Exodus 16:2And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
  • Deuteronomy 9:21–24And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain. You continued…
  • Amos 5:25–26Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
  • Exodus 16:35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
  • Hebrews 3:16–19For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to…
  • Ezekiel 20:10–17So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness. And I gave them My statutes and made known to them My ordinances—for the man who does these things will live by them. I also gave them My…

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