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Bible in Basic English
And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Holman Bible
They even made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and were celebrating what their hands had made.
International Standard Version
"At that time they even made a calf to be their idol, offered a sacrifice to it, and delighted in what they had made with their hands.
A Conservative Version
And they made a calf in those days, and offered up sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
American Standard Version
And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Amplified
In those days they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced and celebrated over the works of their hands.
An Understandable Version
And so the people fashioned a calf [out of gold] and offered [an animal] sacrifice to this idol and [then] celebrated joyously over what they had done [See Exodus 32:4-6; 17-19].
Anderson New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Common New Testament
At that time they made a calf and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Daniel Mace New Testament
'twas then they made a calf, and offered sacrifice to the idol, triumphing in the works of their own hands.
Darby Translation
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Godbey New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Goodspeed New Testament
They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.
John Wesley New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Julia Smith Translation
And they made a calf in those days, and brought up a sacrifice to the image, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
King James 2000
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Modern King James verseion
And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice to the idol and rejoiced in the work of their own hands.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the image, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Moffatt New Testament
They actually made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to this idol, and grew festive over what their own hands had manufactured.
Montgomery New Testament
"And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to this idol, and began to rejoice over what they had made with their hands.
NET Bible
At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.
New Heart English Bible
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Noyes New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Sawyer New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
The Emphasized Bible
And so they fell to calf-making in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice for the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Twentieth Century New Testament
That was the time when they made the Calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!
Webster
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Weymouth New Testament
"Moreover they made a calf at that time, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and kept rejoicing in the gods which their own hands had made.
Williams New Testament
In those days they even made a calf, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over the works of their own hands.
World English Bible
They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
Worrell New Testament
And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.
Worsley New Testament
and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Youngs Literal Translation
'And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,
Themes
Calf of gold » Sacrifices offered to
Calf of gold » Was made » After an egyptian model
Court » Accused spoke in his own defense
Idolatry » The jews » Brought, out of egypt with them
Idolatry » Consists in » Sacrificing to images
Images » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
Select readings » Stephen's defense
false Worship » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
FALSE » Other objects of worship » The golden calf made by aaron
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References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 7:41
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Rebellion Against God
40 And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him. 41 And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands. 42 But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?
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Cross References
Exodus 32:2-8
Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me.
Exodus 32:17-20
Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents.
Deuteronomy 9:12-18
And the Lord said to me, Get up now, and go down quickly from this place; for the people you have taken out of Egypt have given themselves over to evil; they have quickly been turned from the way in which I gave them orders to go; they have made themselves a metal image.
Nehemiah 9:18
Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;
Psalm 106:19-21
They made a young ox in Horeb, and gave worship to an image of gold.
Isaiah 2:8-9
Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.
Isaiah 44:9-20
Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.
Hosea 9:1
Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
Habakkuk 2:18-20
What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?
Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking: