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Acts 13

Acts 13:16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Now/however Paul having risen up and having signaled/motioned with the hand said, “Men, Israelites, and those fearing GOD, listen: *The GOD of this people Yisra’el (Israel) chose our fathers and lifted up the people in the sojourning/dwelling-in-strange-land in the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), and with uplifted arm, led them out from it, and for a time of about forty years HE endured their ways in the wilderness and cast down the seven nations in the land of Canaan giving by lot their land about four hundred and fifty years*/*about four hundred and fifty years also beyond this: HE gave judges until Samuel the prophet and from there they asked for a king and GOD gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years and removed him raising up David to them as king, to whom also HE said bearing witness, ‘I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to MY heart, who will do all MY will’, from/of the seed this (man)*, the GOD, according to (the) promise, has brought to Yisra’el (Israel) YESHUA the SAVIOR. (Acts 13:16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)

(“about 450 years” is repeated twice in order to show the 450 years is from that point in time backward and forward. Many have interpreted the 450 years for the past events, and many have interpreted the 450 years for the future events. The 450 years, even in the language of the wording, is for both the past and the future. The * marks the beginning and the end of each 450 years. “About” does not mean a different number than 450 years, just as Paul states “about 40 years HE endured their ways in the wilderness,” but points to the 450 years being calculated as not exactly 450 years to the day.)