Devine Scripture

Acts 13:18

Acts chapter 13 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

Context

v.17The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm led he them forth out of it.

v.18This passage

v.19And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 3:7

    Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith, To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

  • Hebrews 3:16

    For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?

  • Nehemiah 9:16

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

  • Acts 7:39

    to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

  • Deuteronomy 1:31

    and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

  • Psalms 106:13

    They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,