Acts 13:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.”
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“He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 13:18 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 16:2And there in the desert they all grumbled against Moses and Aaron.
- 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.
- 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—
- Numbers 14:33Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:21And 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.
- Nehemiah 9:16But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
- Psalms 78:17But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
- Psalms 95:8do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- Psalms 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
- Ezekiel 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
- Amos 5:25Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- 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.
- Acts 7:39But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
- 1 Corinthians 10:1I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
- Hebrews 3:7Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
- Hebrews 3:16For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?
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