Acts 7:44

Moses

⁴² But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

⁴³ You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

⁴⁵ And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

⁴⁶ who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

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: Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.
KJV: Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
WEB: “Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;
ASV: Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.
DARBY: Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;
BLB: The tabernacle of the Testimony was with our fathers in the wilderness, just as the One speaking to Moses had commanded [him] to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

ÅB: Våre fedre hadde i ørkenen vitnesbyrdets telt, slik som den som talte til Moses, befalte ham å gjøre det etter det forbilde han hadde sett;
OTB: «Våre forfedre hadde paktteltet med seg i ørkenen. Det ble laget som Gud instruerte Moses, i henhold til mønsteret han hadde sett.
B1930: Våre fedre hadde i ørkenen vidnesbyrdets telt, således som den som talte til Moses, bød ham å gjøre det efter det forbillede han hadde sett;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 25:40
See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
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Exodus 38:21
This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
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Hebrews 8:5
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
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Hebrews 8:2
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
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Exodus 26:30
So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
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Exodus 25:8–9
And they are to make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.
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Numbers 1:50–53
Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.
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1 Chronicles 28:19
“All this,” said David, “all the details of this plan, the LORD has made clear to me in writing by His hand upon me.”
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