43 And you took along the tabernacle[a] of Moloch
    and the star of the god[b] Rephan,
the images that you made, to worship them,
    and I will deport you beyond Babylon!’[c]

44 The tabernacle of the testimony belonged[d] to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him[e] to make it according to the design that he had seen, 45 and which, after[f] receiving it[g] in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the[h] nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:43 Or “tent”
  2. Acts 7:43 Some manuscripts have “of your god”
  3. Acts 7:43 A quotation from Amos 5:25–27
  4. Acts 7:44 Literally “was”
  5. Acts 7:44 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  6. Acts 7:45 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“receiving”) which is understood as temporal
  7. Acts 7:45 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  8. Acts 7:45 Literally “in the possession of the”