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Acts 7:42-44
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42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets:

‘You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me
    for forty years in the wilderness, did you,[a] house of Israel?
43 And you took along the tabernacle[b] of Moloch
    and the star of the god[c] Rephan,
the images that you made, to worship them,
    and I will deport you beyond Babylon!’[d]

44 The tabernacle of the testimony belonged[e] to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him[f] to make it according to the design that he had seen,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:42 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by “did you”
  2. Acts 7:43 Or “tent”
  3. Acts 7:43 Some manuscripts have “of your god”
  4. Acts 7:43 A quotation from Amos 5:25–27
  5. Acts 7:44 Literally “was”
  6. Acts 7:44 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
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