Acts 7:38-48

38 He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; and he received living oracles to give to us.
39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
40 saying to Aaron, "Make gods for us who will lead the way for us; as for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.'
41 At that time they made a calf, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands.
42 But God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: "Did you offer to me slain victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 No; you took along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; so I will remove you beyond Babylon.'
44 "Our ancestors had the tent of testimony in the wilderness, as God directed when he spoke to Moses, ordering him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.
45 Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors. And it was there until the time of David,
46 who found favor with God and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the house of Jacob.
47 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.
48 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands; as the prophet says,

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Gk [he]
  • [b]. Other ancient authorities read [for the God of Jacob]
  • [c]. Gk [with hands]
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