Acts 7:39 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁹ Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned 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 expelled Abiathar from being priest to the Lord, thus fulfilling the word of the Lord which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

Psalm 106:16

When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

Exodus 16:3

and said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full; 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 murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?”

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 21:5

And 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 loathe this worthless food.”

Acts 7:27

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

1 Corinthians 14:32

and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

Judges 11:2

And Gilead's wife also bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman.”