Acts 7:44 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 7:44

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

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John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Our fathers had the tabernacle of the testimony - The testimony was properly the two tables of stone, on which the ten commandments were written. Hence the ark which contained them is frequently called the ark of the testimony; and the whole tabernacle in this place.

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἡ	Hē	The	G3588 →
σκηνὴ	skēnē	tabernacle	G4633 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
μαρτυρίου	marturiou	testimony	G3142 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
τοῖς	tois	the	G3588 →
πατράσιν	patrasin	fathers	G3962 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἐρήμῳ,	erēmō	wilderness,	G2048 →
καθὼς	kathōs	even as	G2531 →
διετάξατο	dietaxato	had commanded	G1299 →
ὁ	ho	the [One]	G3588 →
λαλῶν	lalōn	speaking	G2980 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
Μωϋσῇ	Mōusēa	to Moses	G3475 →
ποιῆσαι	poiēsai	to make	G4160 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
κατὰ	kata	according to	G2596 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
τύπον	tupon	pattern	G5179 →
ὃν	hon	that	G3739 →
ἑωράκει·	he'ōrakei	he had seen;	G3708 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 8:5
The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…
leads to
- Exodus 25:40
  See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
- Exodus 26:30
  So you are to set up the tabernacle according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Colossians 2:17
  These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.
- Hebrews 10:1
  For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near…
- Exodus 27:8
  Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
Through
Exodus 25:40
See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.
leads to
- Hebrews 8:5
  The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you…
- Numbers 8:4
  This is how the lampstand was constructed: it was made of hammered gold from its base to its blossoms, fashioned according to the pattern the LORD had shown Moses.
Through
Hebrews 8:2
and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.
leads to
- Exodus 33:7
  Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent…

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