Acts of the Apostles 13:18

In context

16Paul stood up, motioned with his hand and said: “Israelites, and you who fear God, listen. 17The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors. He made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with a raised arm he led them out of it. 18For some forty years he put up with them in the wilderness; 19he overthrew seven nations in the land of Canaan and gave them their land as an inheritance. 20All this took about four hundred and fifty years. After that he gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet.