Acts 7:44

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Our fathers had the tabernle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it cording to the fashion that he had seen.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as He had appointed, instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern that he had seen,

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Our{G2257} fathers{G3962} had{G2258} the tabernacle{G4633} of the testimony{G3142} in{G1722} the wilderness,{G2048} even as{G2531} he appointed{G1299} who spake{G2980} unto Moses,{G3475} that he should make{G4160} it{G846} according to{G2596} the figure{G5179} that{G3739} he had seen.{G3708}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Our{G2257} fathers{G3962} had{G2258}{(G5713)} the tabernacle{G4633} of witness{G3142}{G1722} in{G1722} the wilderness{G2048}, as{G2531} he had appointed{G1299}{(G5668)}, speaking{G2980}{(G5723)} unto Moses{G3475}, that he should make{G4160}{(G5658)} it{G846} according{G2596} to the fashion{G5179} that{G3739} he had seen{G3708}{(G5715)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnes in ye wyldernes as he had apoynted the speakynge vnto Moses that he shuld make it acordynge to the fassion that he had sene.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Oure fathers had the tabernacle of witnesse in ye wyldernesse, like as he appoynted them, whan he spake vnto Moses, that he shulde make it (acordinge to the patrone, yt he had sene.)

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of witnes, in the wildernes, as hee had appointed, speaking vnto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seene.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Our fathers had ye tabernacle of witnesse in the wyldernesse, as he had appoynted, speakyng vnto Moyses, that he shoulde make it accordyng to the fasshion that he had seene.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    "Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he appointed who spake unto Moses, that he should make it according to the figure that he had seen.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, even as he who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern that he had seen;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 38:21 : 21 These are the accounts of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, recorded as Moses commanded, by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
  • Exod 25:40 : 40 See to it that you make them according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.
  • Exod 26:30 : 30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan you were shown on the mountain.
  • Exod 25:8-9 : 8 And let them make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them. 9 Make it according to everything I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings. This is how you are to make it.
  • Num 1:50-53 : 50 Instead, appoint the Levites to be in charge of the tabernacle of the covenant, all its furnishings, and everything that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, serve it, and camp around it. 51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down, and whenever it is to be set up, the Levites must set it up. Any outsider who comes near it must be put to death. 52 The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man by his own banner, near his own family’s camp. 53 But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the covenant to protect the Israelites from wrath. The Levites are to carry out the responsibilities of the tabernacle of the covenant.
  • Num 9:15 : 15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, which is the tent of the testimony. In the evening, it appeared above the tabernacle as something like fire until morning.
  • Num 10:11 : 11 In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was lifted from over the Tabernacle of the Testimony.
  • Num 17:7-8 : 7 When the assembly gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting, and there the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared. 8 Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting.
  • Num 18:2 : 2 Bring your brothers from the tribe of Levi, your ancestral tribe, to join you and assist you while you and your sons serve before the tent of the testimony.
  • Josh 18:1 : 1 The entire assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh, where they set up the Tent of Meeting, and the land was subdued before them.
  • 1 Chr 28:11 : 11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper rooms, its inner rooms, and the room for the mercy seat.
  • 1 Chr 28:19 : 19 David said, “All this I have written down by the hand of the LORD who gave me understanding in all the plans for everything to be done.”
  • 2 Chr 24:6 : 6 So the king summoned Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?"
  • Heb 8:2 : 2 He serves in the holy place and the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord and not by man.
  • Heb 8:5 : 5 These priests serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to set up the tabernacle. For God said, 'See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 8:5
    80%

    5 These priests serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to set up the tabernacle. For God said, 'See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.'

  • Acts 7:45-46
    2 verses
    77%

    45 Our ancestors in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David.

    46 David found favor in God’s sight and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

  • Exod 26:30
    77%

    30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan you were shown on the mountain.

  • Acts 7:42-43
    2 verses
    75%

    42 But God turned away and gave them up to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'Did you bring me offerings and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, house of Israel?'

    43 'You have taken up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images you made to worship. Therefore, I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'

  • Exod 25:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 And let them make a sanctuary for Me, so that I may dwell among them.

    9 Make it according to everything I show you—the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings. This is how you are to make it.

  • Acts 7:36-40
    5 verses
    74%

    36 This is the one who led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

    37 This is the same Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.'

    38 This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors; he received living words to pass on to us.

    39 But our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

    40 They said to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will lead us, for we do not know what has happened to this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt.'

  • Exod 25:40
    72%

    40 See to it that you make them according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.

  • Heb 8:2
    72%

    2 He serves in the holy place and the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord and not by man.

  • Exod 31:7
    72%

    7 the tent of meeting, the ark of the covenant, and the atonement cover upon it, and all the furnishings of the tent,

  • Josh 22:28
    71%

    28 And we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD, which our ancestors built—not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’

  • Exod 27:8
    71%

    8 The altar shall be hollow, made with boards. Just as it was shown to you on the mountain, so it shall be made.

  • Heb 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 The first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

    2 For a tabernacle was prepared, the first room containing the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the bread, which is called the Holy Place.

  • Num 9:15
    70%

    15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, which is the tent of the testimony. In the evening, it appeared above the tabernacle as something like fire until morning.

  • Acts 7:31
    69%

    31 Moses was amazed at what he saw. As he approached to look more closely, he heard the voice of the Lord say,

  • Exod 39:32-33
    2 verses
    69%

    32 Thus all the work on the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed, and the Israelites did everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    33 Then they brought the Tabernacle to Moses—the tent and all its furnishings, including its clasps, frames, crossbars, posts, and bases.

  • Heb 9:4
    69%

    4 It had the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered with gold on all sides. Inside the ark were a golden jar containing the manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

  • 2 Chr 1:3
    69%

    3 Then Solomon and the whole assembly went to the high place at Gibeon, because God's tent of meeting, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness, was there.

  • Exod 33:7
    69%

    7 Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from it. He called it the 'tent of meeting.' Anyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting outside the camp.

  • Exod 35:11
    69%

    11 The tabernacle, its tent, its covering, its clasps, its frames, its crossbars, its posts, and its bases.

  • Exod 40:19
    69%

    19 He spread the tent over the Tabernacle and placed the covering of the tent on top, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • 2 Sam 7:6
    68%

    6 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought the people of Israel up from Egypt, to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent, a tabernacle.

  • Num 17:4
    68%

    4 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that had been brought by those who were burned, and they were hammered into a covering for the altar.

  • Amos 5:26
    68%

    26 You have carried Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your idols, the stars of your gods that you made for yourselves.

  • Num 7:89
    68%

    89 Whenever Moses entered the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the atonement cover that was on the ark of the covenant, between the two cherubim. And the LORD spoke to him.

  • Exod 40:21
    68%

    21 Then he brought the ark into the Tabernacle, hung the veil as a partition, and shielded the ark of the testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Acts 13:18
    68%

    18 For about forty years He endured their behavior in the wilderness.

  • Exod 40:1
    68%

    1 The Lord said to Moses,

  • 1 Chr 21:29
    68%

    29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.

  • Num 9:17
    68%

    17 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the people of Israel would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the people of Israel would camp.

  • Exod 38:21
    68%

    21 These are the accounts of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, recorded as Moses commanded, by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.

  • Lev 9:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 So they brought what Moses commanded to the front of the Tent of Meeting. Then the entire assembly came near and stood before the LORD.

    6 Moses said, 'This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD will appear to you.'

  • Num 8:4
    68%

    4 This is how the lampstand was made: it was a hammered work of gold, from its base to its flowers. It was made of hammered work according to the pattern that the LORD showed Moses.

  • Deut 1:33
    68%

    33 who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

  • Num 4:21
    68%

    21 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 9:20
    68%

    20 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. In that case, they camped at the LORD's command and then set out at the LORD's command.

  • Heb 9:8
    67%

    8 By this, the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.

  • Acts 7:2
    67%

    2 Stephen replied: 'Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was living in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran.

  • Exod 40:34
    67%

    34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

  • Deut 31:15
    67%

    15 Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.