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Acts 13:17-19
Lexham English Bible
Acts 13:17-19
Lexham English Bible
17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their[a] stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness. 19 And after[b] destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people[c] as an inheritance.
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- Acts 13:17 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
- Acts 13:19 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“destroying”) which is understood as temporal
- Acts 13:19 The words “to his people” are supplied as a clarification of who received the land
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