43 (A)You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god [a]Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’

44 “Our fathers had (B)the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it (C)according to the pattern which he had seen. 45 And having received it in their turn, our fathers (D)brought it in with [b]Joshua upon dispossessing the [c]nations whom God drove out before our fathers, until the time of David.

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  1. Acts 7:43 Other mss spell it: Romphan, or Rempham, or Raiphan, or Rephan
  2. Acts 7:45 Gr Jesus
  3. Acts 7:45 Or Gentiles

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](A) beyond Babylon.

44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law(B) with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.(C) 45 After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them.(D) It remained in the land until the time of David,(E)

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  1. Acts 7:43 Amos 5:25-27 (see Septuagint)