Acts 7:42 - Plain English Version

⁴² So God turned away from our grand-fathers. He left them, and they showed respect to the sun and the moon, and the stars too. Some time later God told one of his men to write about that, and now it is in God’s book. He wrote, ‘You people of Israel, you were in the desert for 40 years, and at that time, did you bring animals to kill and give to me? No, they were not for me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² But God turned [away from them] and delivered them up to worship and serve the host (stars) of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: Did you [really] offer to Me slain beasts and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness (desert), O house of Israel? [Jer. 19:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Common English Bible

⁴² So God turned away from them and handed them over to worship the stars in the sky, just as it is written in the scroll of the Prophets: “Did you bring sacrifices and offerings to me” “for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² Then God turned, and he handed them over, to subservience to the armies of heaven, just as it was written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?

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Acts 7:36

Moses helped God’s people leave Egypt. He did powerful things in Egypt, so that the big boss there let them go. So God’s people all followed Moses out of Egypt, and when they got to the water called the Red Sea, he did another powerful thing to let the people walk across to the other side. And later, he did more powerful things for them, while they walked around in the desert for 40 years.

John 6:45

A long time ago, God told one of his men to write about this, and it is in God’s book. He wrote, ‘God is the one that will teach all of them.’ And that’s how it happens. The people that listen to God and learn from him, those people will come to me.

Acts 13:40

A long time ago, God told some of his men to write about that, and it is in God’s book. And now you people be careful. Don’t be like the people that those men wrote about in God’s book. One of them wrote,