Acts 7:39
37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
38 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.
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.’
41 At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.
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
- But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
- KJV
- To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
- WEB
- to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- ASV
- to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,
- DARBY
- to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust [him] from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,
- BLB
- to whom our fathers were not willing to be obedient, but pushed away, and they turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
- ÅB
- Ham ville våre fedre ikke være lydige, de støtte ham fra seg, og vendte seg i sitt hjerte til Egypt, og de sa til Aron:
- OTB
- «Men våre forfedre nektet å adlyde ham. I stedet avviste de ham og lengtet i sine hjerter etter å vende tilbake til Egypt.
- B1930
- Ham vilde våre fedre ikke være lydige, de støtte ham fra sig, og vendte sig i sitt hjerte til Egypten, og de sa til Aron:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 14:3–4
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”
Read in contextNumbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:16–17
But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.
Read in contextActs 7:51–52
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Read in contextEzekiel 20:6–14
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.
Read in contextExodus 16:3
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Read in context1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
Read in contextPsalms 106:32–33
At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.
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