Acts 7:41

And they made a calf in those days, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

40saying to Aaron, ‘ Make for 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.’

42But God turned away and gave them over to serve the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 1 ‘ Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the 1 wilderness, 1 O house of Israel? 1

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Cross References

Revelation 9:20But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent from the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and of wood, which neither are able to see nor to hear nor to walk.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:31-42

Stephen's Address. 30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. 31 When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him, 32 Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold. 33 Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou… Read the whole commentary →

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