Acts 13:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ Paul stood up, motioned with his hand, and began to speak:

“Fellow Israelites and all Gentiles here who worship God: hear me! ^17 (A)The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made the people a great nation during the time they lived as foreigners in Egypt. God brought them out of Egypt by his great power, ^18 (B)and for forty years he endured^[a] them in the desert.