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17 The God of this people Isra’el chose our fathers. He made the people great during the time when they were living as aliens in Egypt and with a stretched-out arm he led them out of that land.[a] 18 For some forty years[b] he took care of them in the desert, 19 and after he had destroyed seven nations[c] in the land of Kena‘an he gave their land to his people as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:17 Exodus 6:6; 12:51
  2. Acts 13:18 Exodus 16:35; Numbers 14:34
  3. Acts 13:19 Deuteronomy 7:1

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