Acts 7:36

“So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wondrous deeds which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

“But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart with stiffness that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

“For forty years I loathed that generation, And said they are a people who wander in their heart, And they do not know My ways.

So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

“But God turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you present Me with slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

“The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and lifted up the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out from it.

“And for a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years.