Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,
Acts 7:41 - New Revised Standard Version At that time they made a calf, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they [even] made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol and made merry and exulted in the work of their [own] hands. [Exod. 32:4, 6.] American Standard Version (1901) And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands. Common English Bible That’s when they made an idol in the shape of a calf, offered a sacrifice to it, and began to celebrate what they had made with their own hands. Catholic Public Domain Version And so they fashioned a calf in those days, and they offered sacrifices to an idol, and they rejoiced in the works of their own hands. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. |
Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,
Do not rejoice, O Israel! Do not exult as other nations do; for you have played the whore, departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute's pay on all threshing floors.
Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree, in its first season, I saw your ancestors. But they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to a thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.
The rest of humankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands or give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.