Acts 7:42

But 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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In The King James Version

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

In Context

41And they made a calf in those days, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

43Indeed you carried up the tabernacle of Moloch, 1 and the star of your god Remphan, 1 the images which you made to worship them; 1 and I will relocate you beyond Babylon.’ 1 God's True Tabernacle

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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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