Acts 7:38

Mount Sinai

³⁶ He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

³⁷ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

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:

³⁹ To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

⁴⁰ Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of 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 every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
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John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 4:11
If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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Deuteronomy 33:4
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
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Acts 7:53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
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Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
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Deuteronomy 6:1–3
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
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