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Acts 7:39

Egypt
Obedience

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.

38 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:

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.

41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

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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:

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Cross references

  • Numbers 14:3–4

    And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

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  • Numbers 11:5

    We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:

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  • Nehemiah 9:16–17

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

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  • Acts 7:51–52

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

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  • Ezekiel 20:6–14

    In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

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  • Exodus 16:3

    And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

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  • 1 Kings 2:27

    So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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  • Psalms 106:32–33

    They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

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