Acts 7:42 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴² But God turned [away from them] and allowed them to worship heavenly bodies [i.e., stars], just as it was written in the prophet [Amos 5:25ff], ‘Did you offer me slain animals as sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, you Israelites?

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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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² And God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?

Acts 7:42 Cross References

John 6:45

It is written in the prophets [Isa. 54:13], ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ [So], every person who has heard the Father and learned [from Him] will come to me.

Acts 13:40

Beware that what was spoken by the prophets does not happen to you:

Acts 7:36

This man led them out [of Egypt], performing wonders and [miraculous] signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

Hebrews 3:9

where your forefathers tried me and tested [my patience] when they saw what I did for forty years.