Acts 7:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³⁹ Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ [And yet] our forefathers determined not to be subject to him [refusing to listen to or obey him]; but thrusting him aside they rejected him, and in their hearts yearned for and turned back to Egypt. [Num. 14:3, 4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

Common English Bible

³⁹ He’s also the one whom our ancestors refused to obey. Instead, they pushed him aside and, in their thoughts and desires, returned to Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ It is he whom our fathers were not willing to obey. Instead, they rejected him, and in their hearts they turned away toward Egypt,

Acts 7:39 Cross References

1 Kings 2:27

So Solomon banished Abiathar from being the Lord’s priest, and it fulfilled the Lord’s prophecy which he had spoken at Shiloh against Eli’s family.

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, ‘If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger! ’

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted there for water and grumbled against Moses. They said, ‘Why did you ever bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst? ’

Numbers 11:5

We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt,  along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and Moses: ‘Why have you led us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food! ’

Acts 7:27

‘But the one who was mistreating his neighbour pushed Moses aside, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

1 Corinthians 14:32

And the prophets’ spirits are subject to the prophets,

Judges 11:2

Gilead’s wife bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, ‘You will have no inheritance in our father’s family, because you are the son of another woman.’