And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
Ver. 18. Suffered he their manners] ετροποφορησεν, As a mother bears with her child's frowardness; or as a husband bears with his wife's crossness, which yet he liketh not, Uxoris vitium, aut tollendum nut tolerandum, saith Varro in Agellius.