Acts 7:40-42

Good News Translation

⁴⁰^(A)So they said to Aaron, ‘Make us some gods who will lead us. We do not know what has happened to that man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.’ ⁴¹^(B)It was then that they made an idol in the shape of a bull, offered sacrifice to it, and had a feast in honor of what they themselves had made. ⁴²^(C)So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

‘People of Israel! It was not to me
that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals
for forty years in the desert.

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