Acts 7:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they 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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ Whom our fathers would not obey; but thrust him away, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,

Acts 7:39 Cross References

1 Kings 2:27

So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Psalm 106:16

They were jealous of Moses in the camp and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

Exodus 16:3

The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Exodus 17:3

But the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic,

Numbers 21:5

The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”

Acts 7:27

But the man who was wronging his neighbor pushed Moses aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?

1 Corinthians 14:32

(and the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets,

Judges 11:2

Gilead’s wife also bore him sons, and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah away, saying to him, “You shall not inherit anything in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”