Bible verse

Acts 7:39

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

Acts 7:39 · BSB

Acts 7:39 in context

The verses around it, from Acts 7.

35 This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

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.’

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.

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.’

41 At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

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.’

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Acts 7:39 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

ERV

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

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