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Acts 7:39

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

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ASV

to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt,

KJV

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ᾧhōto whomG3739 →
οὐκouknotG3756 →
ἠθέλησανēthelēsanwantedG2309 →
ὑπήκοοιhupēkooiobedientG5255 →
γενέσθαιgenesthaito beG1096 →
οἱhoitheG3588 →
πατέρεςpateresfathersG3962 →
ἡμῶν,hēmōnof us,G3165 →
ἀλλ᾽all᾽butG235 →
ἀπώσαντοapōsantothey thrust awayG683 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἐστράφησανestraphēsanthey turned backG4762 →
ἐνeninG1722 →
ταῖςtaistheG3588 →
καρδίαιςkardiaisheartsG2588 →
αὐτῶνautōnof themG846 →
εἰςeistoG1519 →
Αἴγυπτον,AiguptonEgypt,G125 →

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Psalms 78:41Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.Numbers 14:3–4Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”Numbers 11:5We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.Numbers 14:4So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Nehemiah 9:16–17But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments.Exodus 13:17When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them along the road through the land of the Philistines, though it was shorter. For God said, “If the people face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”Jude 1:8Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.Numbers 11:18And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.Ezekiel 20:6–14On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.Exodus 16:3“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”Acts 7:51–52You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.Exodus 17:3But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”1 Kings 2:27So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.Exodus 14:11–12They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?Judges 11:2And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”Numbers 21:5and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”Psalms 106:32–33At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

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