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18 And for about a forty year period He put-up-with[a] them in the wilderness. 19 And having brought-down seven[b] nations in the land of Canaan, He gave them their land as-an-inheritance 20 about[c] in [a total of] four-hundred and fifty years. And after these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:18 Some manuscripts say ‘carried’, meaning ‘cared-for’, as in the Hebrew of Deut 1:31, where this same variation occurs in the Greek manuscripts.
  2. Acts 13:19 See Deut 7:1.
  3. Acts 13:20 That is, about 450 years after they left the land for Egypt. Some manuscripts instead have this phrase in the next sentence, He gave them judges for about 450 years.

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