Acts 7:41

And at that time they made an egel (calf) and brought a sacrifice offering to the elil (idol) and were taking delight in the ma'asim (works) of their hands. + 7:41 Ex 32:4-6; Ps 106:19,20

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

40Having said to Aharon, Make for us g-ds who will go before us; for this Moshe who led us out of the land of Mitzrayim we do not know what happened to him. + 7:40 Ex 32:1,23

42But Hashem turned away and handed them over to serve the tzeva Shomayim, just as it has been written in the sefer haNevi'im, HAZEVACHIM UMINCHAH HIGASHTEM LI BAMIDBAR ARBA'IM SHANAH, BET YISROEL (It was not to me that you offered victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, O House of Israel?) + 7:42 Am 5:25-27; Josh 24:20; Isa 63:10; Jer 19:13

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Cross References

Exodus 32:2And Aharon said unto them, Take off the rings of zahav in the ears of your nashim, of your banim, and of your banot, and bring them unto me.

Deuteronomy 9:12And Hashem said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Mitzrayim have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a massekhah (molten image).

Psalms 106:19They made an egel (a calf) in Chorev, 1 and worshiped a massekhah (molden image). 1

Isaiah 44:9They that make a pesel are all of them tohu; and their chamudim (favorite [idols]) are worthless; and they + 44:9 the idols are their own edim; they + 44:9 the idols see not, nor know; so that they + 44:9 the idol people are put to shame.

Hosea 9:10I found Yisroel like grapes in the midbar; 1 I saw your avot as the bikkurah 1 in the fig tree at her first season; 1 but they went to Ba'al-Pe'or, 1 and separated themselves unto that shame; 1 and their abominations were according as they loved. 1

Revelation 9:20And the rest of the Bnei Adam, the ones not killed by these makkot (plagues), did not make teshuva and turn from the ma'asim (deeds) of their hands or forsake worship of shedim (demons) and the itztzavim (idols, images, tzelamim), those of gold and of silver and of bronze and of stone and of wood, which neither are able to see nor to hear nor to walk. + 9:20 Dt 4:28; 31:29; Jer 1:16; Mic 5:13

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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