Acts 7:53

You who received the Torah at the directions of malachim and were not shomer of it.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it .

In Context

52Which of the Nevi'im (prophets) did your Avot not persecute? And they killed the ones having announced beforehand about the Bias HaMoshiach, the coming of the Tzaddik of whom now you became bogedim and rotzechim (murderers);

54And hearing these things, they were infuriated in their levavot, and they were grinding their teeth at him.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:1In the chodesh hashelishi (third new moon), after the Bnei Yisroel had their exodus from Eretz Mitzrayim, on that very day they came into the Midbar Sinai.

Psalms 68:17Why gaze ye in envy, ye many-peaked harim? 1 This is the har which Elohim hath chosen to dwell in; 1 indeed, Hashem will dwell in it lanetzach (forever). 1

John 7:19Has not Moshe given you the Torah? None of you mekyyaim (fulfills) es [kol] toras Moshe. Why are you seeking to kill me? + 7:19 Dt 32:46; Prov 20:9; Koh 7:20; Isa 53:6; Ro 7:19

Romans 2:23You who boast + 2:23 Ro 4:2; Lk 17:10 in Torah, + 2:23 Ro 2:29; 3:20; Ga 2:15-21 through deviating from the Torah, you commit Chillul Hashem.

Galatians 6:13For not even those of the party of the bris milah are shomer mitzvot themselves; they (the mohalim of Goyim) want you (Goyim) to undergo bris milah for the purpose of boasting in your basar!

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:52-54

Stephen's Address. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. Stephen was going on in his discourse (as it should seem by the thread of it) to show that, as the temple,… Read the whole commentary →

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