Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is he whom our fathers were not willing to obey. Instead, they rejected him, and in their hearts they turned away toward Egypt, "
— Acts 7:39, Catholic Public Domain Version
“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
“to whom our fathers would not be obedient, but thrust him from them, and turned back in their hearts unto Egypt, ”
“to whom our fathers wouldn't be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,”
“Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,”
“Whom our fathers would not obey: but thrust him away and in their hearts turned back into Egypt,”
“By whom our fathers would not be controlled; but they put him on one side, turning back in their hearts to Egypt,”
“To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,”
This man led them out, accomplishing signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and at the Red Sea, and in the desert, for forty years.
This is Moses, who said to the sons of Israel: ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own brothers. You shall listen to him.’
This is he who was in the Church in the wilderness, with the Angel who was speaking to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. It is he who received the words of life to give to us.
It is he whom our fathers were not willing to obey. Instead, they rejected him, and in their hearts they turned away toward Egypt,
saying to Aaron: ‘Make gods for us, which may go before us. For this Moses, who led us away from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.’
And so they fashioned a calf in those days, and they offered sacrifices to an idol, and they rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Then God turned, and he handed them over, to subservience to the armies of heaven, just as it was written in the Book of the Prophets: ‘Did you not offer victims and sacrifices to me for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?