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Acts 7:40

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saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

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Acts 7:40 in other translations

saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

Acts 7:40 · American Standard Version

Acts 7:40 in context

  1. 38This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
  2. 39to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
  3. 40saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods that will go before us, for as for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’
  4. 41They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
  5. 42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets,
    ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices
    forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?