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yea, even upon my bondmen and upon my bondwomen in those days will I pour out of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
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Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,
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for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.
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And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat [them] four hundred years;
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And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
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And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire of a bush.
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*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
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But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in [the] book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of [your] god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.
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And he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name, who had been lying for eight years upon a couch, who was paralysed.
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And having found [him], he brought him to Antioch. And so it was with them that for a whole year they were gathered together in the assembly and taught a large crowd: and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
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and for a time of about forty years he nursed them in the desert.
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And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.
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And then they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul, son of Kis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, during forty years.
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And he remained [there] a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.
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And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.
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Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one [of you] with tears.
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But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.
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And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.
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But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.
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And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all who came to him,