Acts 7:38
36 He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
39 But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
40 They said to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go before us! As for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
- KJV
- This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- WEB
- This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
- ASV
- This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:
- DARBY
- This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel who spoke to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;
- BLB
- This is the one having been in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel speaking to him in Mount Sinai, and [with] our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,
- ÅB
- Han er den som i menigheten i ørkenen var med den engel som talte til ham på Sinai berg, og med våre fedre, han som mottok levende ord for å gi oss dem.
- OTB
- Han var med menigheten i ørkenen, med engelen som talte til ham på Sinai-fjellet, og med våre forfedre; og han mottok levende ord for å gi videre til oss.
- B1930
- Han er den som i menigheten i ørkenen var med den engel som talte til ham på Sinai berg, og med våre fedre, han som mottok levende ord for å gi oss dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 3:2
Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.
Read in contextHebrews 5:12
Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food!
Read in contextJohn 1:17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Read in context1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:4
the law that Moses gave us, the possession of the assembly of Jacob.
Read in contextActs 7:53
you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
Read in contextIsaiah 63:9
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:1–3
These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
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