Acts 7:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

Saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

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  • Exod 32:1 : 1 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Arise, make us gods to go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."
  • Exod 32:23 : 23 For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

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  • Exod 32:23-25
    3 verses
    93%

    23For they said to me, 'Make us gods who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'

    24And I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them break it off.' So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and this calf came out."

    25When Moses saw that the people were unrestrained (for Aaron had not restrained them, to their shame among their enemies),

  • Exod 32:1-4
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    90%

    1When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, "Arise, make us gods to go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

    2Aaron said to them, "Break off the golden earrings that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me."

    3So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

    4He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt."

  • Acts 7:39
    81%

    39To whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected him, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

  • Exod 32:7-9
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    7The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

    8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made a molten calf, have worshiped it, have sacrificed to it, and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

    9The LORD said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people.

  • Acts 7:41-42
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    80%

    41And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

    42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer to me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  • Neh 9:18
    78%

    18Even when they made a molten calf for themselves, and said, 'This is your God that brought you up out of Egypt,' and committed great provocations,

  • Exod 14:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt with us in this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

    12Is not this the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

  • Num 14:4
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    4And they said to one another, Let us choose a captain, and let us return to Egypt.

  • Deut 9:12
    74%

    12And the LORD said to me, Arise, go down quickly from here; for your people which you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten image.

  • Exod 10:25-26
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    74%

    25And Moses said, You must also give us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

    26Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.

  • Exod 32:21
    74%

    21Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought such a great sin upon them?"

  • Exod 32:31
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    31Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made gods of gold for themselves.

  • Exod 20:19
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    19Then they said to Moses, 'You speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.’

  • Exod 8:26-27
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    26And Moses said, It is not appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

    27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.

  • Exod 10:8
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    8And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go?

  • Num 14:2
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    2And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

  • Ps 106:19
    73%

    19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image.

  • Judg 2:12
    72%

    12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • Exod 7:1
    72%

    1And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.

  • Exod 17:3
    72%

    3And the people were thirsty there for water; and the people grumbled against Moses, and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

  • Jer 2:6
    72%

    6Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no one lived?

  • Num 14:13
    72%

    13And Moses said to the LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, (for you brought up this people in your might from among them;)

  • Deut 29:26
    71%

    26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • Acts 7:36
    71%

    36He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

  • Deut 29:16
    71%

    16(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;

  • Exod 32:35
    71%

    35The LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.

  • Acts 7:32
    71%

    32Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and did not dare to look.

  • Jer 16:20
    71%

    20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Num 20:15
    71%

    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Num 14:11
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    11And the LORD said to Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be before they believe me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?

  • Deut 13:2
    71%

    2And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;

  • Num 20:4
    71%

    4And why have you brought the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness so that we and our livestock should die here?

  • Exod 5:3
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    3And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God; lest he strike us with pestilence or with the sword.

  • 1 Sam 6:6
    71%

    6Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had worked wonders among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

  • Num 14:41
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    41And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.