17. The God of the people of Israel chose our ancestors and made them a strong nation while they lived as foreigners in Egypt. He used his powerful arm to bring them out of Egypt,
18. and he put up with them for about forty years in the desert.
19. Then he destroyed seven nations in Canaan and gave their land to his people as an inheritance.
20. He did all this in about four hundred and fifty years.“After that he gave his people judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.