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Acts 7:42-44
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Acts 7:42-44
Holman Christian Standard Bible
42 Then God turned away(A) and gave them up to worship(B) the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
House of Israel, did you bring Me offerings and sacrifices
40 years in the wilderness?
43 No, you took up the tent of Moloch[a]
and the star of your god Rephan,[b]
the images that you made to worship.
So I will deport you beyond Babylon!(C)[c]
God’s Real Tabernacle
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.(D)
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- Acts 7:43 Canaanite or Phoenician sky or sun god
- Acts 7:43 Perhaps an Assyrian star god—the planet Saturn
- Acts 7:43 Am 5:25-27
Acts 7:42-44
New International Version
Acts 7:42-44
New International Version
42 But God turned away from them(A) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.(B) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:
“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43 You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
and the star of your god Rephan,
the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile’[a](C) beyond Babylon.
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law(D) with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.(E)
Footnotes
- Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)
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