Acts 13:18
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And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

Numbers 14:34
According to the number of the forty days, wherein you viewed the land: a year shall be counted for a day. And forty years you shall receive your iniquities, and shall know my revenge:

Deuteronomy 1:31
And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

Nehemiah 9:30
And thou didst forbear with them for many years, and didst testify against them by thy spirit by the hand of thy prophets: and they heard not, and thou didst deliver them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Psalm 95:10
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Acts 7:36
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.

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And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

about.

Acts 7:36,39-43 He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years. . . .

Exodus 16:2,35 And all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. . . .

Numbers 14:22,33,34 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, . . .

Deuteronomy 9:7,21-24 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord. . . .

Nehemiah 9:16-21 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks and hearkened not to thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 78:17-42 And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. . . .

Psalm 95:8-11 To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts: . . .

Psalm 106:13-29 They had quickly done, they forgot his works: and they waited not for his counsel. . . .

Ezekiel 20:10-17 Therefore I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the desert. . . .

Amos 5:25,26 Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me in the desert for forty years, O house of Israel? . . .

1 Corinthians 10:1-10 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

Hebrews 3:7-10,16-19 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice, . . .

suffered.

1:31; according to the LXX., and so Chrysostom.'

Context
In Pisidian Antioch
17The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt: And with an high arm brought them out from thence: 18And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert: 19And, destroying seven nations in the land of Chaanan, divided their land among them by lot.…
Lexicon
He endured their conduct
ἐτροποφόρησεν (etropophorēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 5159: To endure the ways of, put up with. From tropos and phoreo; to endure one's habits.

for
χρόνον (chronon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5550: A space of time or interval; by extension, an individual opportunity; by implication, delay.

about
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

forty years
τεσσερακονταετῆ (tesserakontaetē)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 5063: Forty years of age. From tessarakonta and etos; of forty years of age.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wilderness.
ἐρήμῳ (erēmō)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2048: Lonesome, i.e. waste.


Additional Translations
He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.

and for a period of about forty years He endured their ways in the wilderness,

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

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

and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.

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

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

For a period of about forty years, He fed them, like a nurse, in the Desert.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness,
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