Acts 13:18-20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
18 and for about forty years he put up with[a] them in the desert.(A) 19 When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance(B) 20 at the end of about four hundred and fifty years.[b] After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.(C)
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- 13:18 Put up with: some manuscripts read “sustained.”
- 13:20 At the end of about four hundred and fifty years: the manuscript tradition makes it uncertain whether the mention of four hundred and fifty years refers to the sojourn in Egypt before the Exodus, the wilderness period and the time of the conquest (see Ex 12:40–41), as the translation here suggests, or to the time between the conquest and the time of Samuel, the period of the judges, if the text is read, “After these things, for about four hundred and fifty years, he provided judges.”
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