Acts 7:41
Good News Translation
It was then that they made an idol in the shape of a bull, offered sacrifice to it, and had a feast in honor of what they themselves had made.

New Revised Standard Version
At that time they made a calf, offered a sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands.

Contemporary English Version
Then they made an idol in the shape of a calf. They offered sacrifices to the idol and were pleased with what they had done.

New American Bible
So they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifice to the idol, and reveled in the works of their hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

they.

Exodus 32:2-8,17-20 And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me. . . .

Deuteronomy 9:12-18 And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol. . . .

Nehemiah 9:18 Yea when they had made also to themselves a molten calf, and had said: This is thy God, that brought thee out of Egypt: and had committed great blasphemies:

Psalm 106:19-21 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

rejoiced.

Isaiah 2:8,9 And their land is filled with horses: and their chariots are innumerable. Their land also is full of idols: they have adored the work of their own hands, which their own fingers have made. . . .

Isaiah 44:9-20 The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed. . . .

Hosea 9:1,10 Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. . . .

Habakkuk 2:18-20 What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image? because the forger thereof hath trusted in a thing of his own forging, to make dumb idols. . . .

Context
Stephen's Address to the Sanhedrin
40Saying to Aaron: Make us gods to go before us. For as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. 41And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifices to the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42And God turned and gave them up to serve the host of heaven, as it is written in the books of the prophets: Did you offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years, in the desert, O house of Israel?…
Cross References
Exodus 32:4
And when he had received them, he fashioned them by founders' work, and made of them a molten calf. And they said: These are thy gods, O Israel, that have brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:6
And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and they rose up to play.

Psalm 106:19
They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing.

Revelation 9:20
And the rest of the men, who were not slain by these plagues, did not do penance from the works of their hands, that they should not adore devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see nor hear nor walk:

Acts 7:40
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