Acts 8:20

But Kefa said to him, May your kesef perish with you because the matnat Hashem you thought by kesef to acquire. + 8:20 2Kgs 5:16; Dt 5:17

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

In Context

19Saying, Give me also this samchut that on whomever I may lay my hands such may receive the Ruach Hakodesh.

21There is not to you a chelek (allotted portion) nor share in this matter, for your lev (heart) is krum (deviant) and not upright before Hashem. + 8:21 Neh 2:20; Ps 78:37

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:26Neither shalt thou bring a to'evah (abomination) into thine bais, lest thou be a cherem like it; but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cherem.

Joshua 7:24And Yehoshua, and kol Yisroel with him, took Achan ben Zerach, and the kesef, and the robe, and the wedge of zahav, and his banim, and his banot, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his tzon, and his ohel, and all that he had; and they brought them unto the Emek Achor (Valley of Trouble).

2 Kings 5:26And he said unto him, Went not mine lev (spirit) with thee, when the ish turned again from his merkavah to meet thee? Is it a time to receive kesef, and to receive begadim, and zeitim (olive groves), and kramim, and tzon, and bakar, and avadim, and shefachot?

Isaiah 55:1Come, kol tzameh (all ye who are thirsty), come ye to the mayim 1 and he that hath no kesef; 1 come ye, buy, and eat; 1 yes, come, buy yayin and cholov 1 without kesef and without mekhir (price, cost). 1

Habakkuk 2:9Hoy (Woe) to him that coveteth an evil gain for his bais, 1 that he may set his ken (nest) on high, 1 that he may be delivered from the power of ruin! 1

Matthew 10:8Heal the cholim, raise the mesim, cleanse the metzoraim (lepers), cast out the shedim; freely you received, freely give.

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:15-26

The Account of Simon Magus. 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was… Read the whole commentary →

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