Acts 7:39-43

39 "Our fathers were unwilling * to be obedient to him, but ¹repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

40 ²SAYING TO AARON, 'MAKE FOR US GODS WHO WILL GO BEFORE US; FOR THIS MOSES WHO LED US OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT -WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM'.

41 "At that time ³they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in ⁴the works of their hands.

42 "But God ⁵turned away and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, '⁶IT WAS NOT TO ME THAT YOU OFFERED VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES ⁷FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, WAS IT, O HOUSE OF ISRAEL?

43 '⁸YOU ALSO TOOK ALONG THE TABERNACLE OF MOLOCH AND THE STAR OF THE GOD ROMPHA, THE IMAGES WHICH YOU MADE TO WORSHIP. I ALSO WILL REMOVE YOU BEYOND BABYLON.'

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 14:3
• 2. Exodus 32:1, 23
• 3. Exodus 32:4, 6
• 4. Revelation 9:20
• 5. Joshua 24:20; Isaiah 63:10; Jeremiah 19:13; Ezekiel 20:39
• 6. Amos 5:25
• 7. Acts 7:36
• 8. Amos 5:26, 27

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "in those days"
• [b]. Or "young bull"
• [c]. Or "worship"
• [d]. I.e. heavenly bodies
• [e]. Other mss spell it: "Romphan," or "Rempham," or "Raiphan," or "Rephan"